A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland Book

A beautifully written exploration of identity and memory in a journey through Ireland. Strangely positioned between Europe and the postcolonial world, Ireland occupies a fluid and contradictory space, not least in the memory or imagination of its many emigrants. In this sensitive exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit returns to Ireland, armed with a newly acquired Irish passport -- courtesy of otherwise forgotten maternal ancestors. Her journey is not to find a stable identity in ancestral roots but to confront notions of stability, identity, ethnicity and nationalism in one of their great mythic sources. A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her passage through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made of … read more...
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