Scholarcast 17: Professions of English diaspora
UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago
English - May 20, 2010 10:51 - 33 minutes - 1023 BytesEducation ucd scholarcast art culture literature english dcu paige reynolds frank mcguinness claire wills Homepage Download IPFS Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In '"I have only one culture and it is not mine": Professions of English diaspora', Julian Wolfreys engages in acts of memory-work, to recover, through a focus on the voice as mnemotechnic and anamnesiac trace, the occluded and marginalized cultural differences of the regional English. Through a reflection on the work of the literary as archive and and the role folk song and folk culture play in the spectral maintenance of different Englishnesses over a thousand year period, Wolfreys argues that at a time when a national agenda for national identity is more urgently damaging than ever, turning to the embedded traces of different, pre-industrial pasts, offers modes of perception and representation that are based on equalities, rather than hierarchies of difference.