A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in IrelandStrangely positioned between Europe and the post-colonial world, Ireland occupies a fluid and contradictory space, not least in the memory or imagination of its many emigrants. In this exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit returns to Ireland, armed with a newly-acquired 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. |
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Contents
The Cave | 1 |
The Book of Invasions | 8 |
Noahs Alphabet | 20 |
The Butterfly Collector | 28 |
The Beggars Rounds | 44 |
Anchor in the Road | 58 |
Wandering Rocks | 71 |
Articles of Faith | 79 |
The Circulation of the Blood | 108 |
Rock Collecting | 119 |
The War between the Birds and Trees | 127 |
Wild Goose Chase | 133 |
Grace | 143 |
Travellers | 151 |
The Green Room | 166 |
Notes | 174 |
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