Connection Ireland/New York

Identity and Migration in Maeve Brennan and Frank McCourt

Authors

  • Sabrina Siqueira
  • Rosani Úrsula Ketzer Umbach UFSM - Professora titular da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), editora do periódico Literatura e Autoritarismo e bolsista de produtividade em pesquisa 1C do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8221-1869

Keywords:

autobiography, literature of migration, Irish literature

Abstract

It is a reflection on the insertion of the works of the writers Maeve Brennan and Frank McCourt in the scope of Literature of Migration studies. Their work can be studied within this field both in due to their emigration from Ireland to the United States and because they constructed migrant characters inspired by their living in New York, to where many Irish people went in the first half of the 20th century. The article also analyzes the influence of Irish history in autobiographical aspects in the works of both authors. Brennan resonates the Irish liberation from the United Kingdom, and McCourt the Great Famine and the migratory diaspora who followed it. In addition to being a writer, Brennan was a journalist, and produced 42 short stories and a novel focusing on female loneliness. McCourt worked as teacher and wrote autobiographies in which humorous narratives highlight the tragedy of Irish poverty exploited by both the United Kingdom and the Catholic Church.

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Author Biography

Sabrina Siqueira

Jornalista graduada pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria e Mestranda em Estudos Literários pela mesma universidade.

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Published

2024-06-19

How to Cite

Siqueira, S., & Úrsula Ketzer Umbach, R. (2024). Connection Ireland/New York: Identity and Migration in Maeve Brennan and Frank McCourt. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 34(2), 157–171. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/47242

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2024): Aniversário de 70 anos de Roberto Bolaño em 2023

Section

Varia

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