Us & Them: Women Writers' Discourses on Foreignness

Abstract

The book Us & Them: Women Writers’ Discourses on Foreignness focuses on literary works from the last four decades to analyse the contingent nature of the constructions of foreignness in Ireland and Galicia. On the basis of various comparable circumstances in both communities —migration flows, increasingly multicultural societies, constant renegotiations of national identity, and the growing visibility of women in the public sphere— this book traces the multiple ways in which gender is intertwined with foreignness and presents contemporary women writers’ new insights into cultural difference.