Alison Gilles
Biographic Data
| ID | 7548246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Gilles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilles |
| SIGNATURE | GILLES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | a The New Teacher Project , 186 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Irishwoman in China
In 1916, Emily de Burgh Daly, a Protestant from Roscommon, published An Irishwoman in China, an account of her twenty-four years as an expatriate. Daly sets out to provide a ‘simple record’ of expatriate life, and that account conforms at first to our expectations of travel writing as a narrative presentation of difference—of foreign others and exotic landscapes. However, in Daly's case, the narrative evolves to include complex and conflicted acc…
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An Irishwoman in China
In 1916, Emily de Burgh Daly, a Protestant from Roscommon, published An Irishwoman in China, an account of her twenty-four years as an expatriate. Daly sets out to provide a ‘simple record’ of expatriate life, and that account conforms at first to our expectations of travel writing as a narrative presentation of difference—of foreign others and exotic landscapes. However, in Daly's case, the narrative evolves to include complex and conflicted acc…
Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · China (1 work) · Empire (1 work) · Expatriate (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Genealogy (1 work) · History (1 work) · Irish and British Studies (1 work)