دورية أكاديمية
Voices from the Shadows: Intergenerational Conflict Memory and Second-Generation Northern Irish Identity in England
العنوان: | Voices from the Shadows: Intergenerational Conflict Memory and Second-Generation Northern Irish Identity in England |
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المؤلفون: | Liam Harte, Jack Crangle, Graham Dawson, Barry Hazley, Fearghus Roulston |
المصدر: | Societies, Vol 14, Iss 6, p 86 (2024) |
بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2024. |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Social sciences (General) |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Northern Ireland Troubles, England, conflict, migration, identity, second generation, Social sciences (General), H1-99 |
الوصف: | Recent scholarship has highlighted the heterogeneity of second-generation Irish identities in Great Britain, yet the varieties of self-identification espoused by the English-raised children of Northern Irish parents remain almost wholly unexplored. This article redresses this neglect by examining the relationship between parentally transmitted memories of the Northern Ireland Troubles (c.1969–1998) and the forms of identity and self-understanding that such children develop during their lives in England. Drawing on original oral history testimony and using the concepts of narrative inheritance and postmemory as interpretive tools, it demonstrates the complex correlation that exists between parents’ diverse approaches to memory-sharing and their children’s negotiation of inherited conflict memory as they position themselves discursively within contemporary English society. Based on a close reading of five oral history interviews, the analysis reveals a spectrum of creative postmemory practices and identity enactments, whereby narrators agentively define themselves in relation to the meanings they attribute to inherited memories, or the dearth thereof, as they navigate their tangled transnational affinities and allegiances. The article also explores how these practices and enactments are subtly responsive to narrators’ changing relationships to their narrative inheritances as their experience and awareness of their own and their parents’ lives deepen over the life course. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 14060086 2075-4698 |
Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/14/6/86; https://doaj.org/toc/2075-4698 |
DOI: | 10.3390/soc14060086 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/d9717805822f444e97ef99b672b314de |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.9717805822f444e97ef99b672b314de |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 14060086 20754698 |
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DOI: | 10.3390/soc14060086 |