An Irishwoman in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15086459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Gilles (a The New Teacher Project , 186 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA, corresponding author), Sealy Gilles (Long Island University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-263 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Travel Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-5145 • E-ISSN: 1755-7550 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3197/136451408x368551 |
| OpenAlex | W2043720565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
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 accounts of political upheaval and foreign intervention in Manchuria. In these episodes, in spite of her enthusiastic adherence to the British Empire, Daly begins to interrogate the presence of Western powers in China and to sympathise with Chinese resistance to foreign rule. Periodic visits to Ireland, on the other hand, occasion the consolidation of imperial identity. We find that, in Emily Daly's case, geographic distance and racial alterity create opportunities to renegotiate the boundaries of imperial self and Other. On home soil, however, those boundaries are reinstated and the interrogation of empire articulated abroad never translates into a critique of British rule in Ireland
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · China · Empire · Expatriate · Genealogy · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Travel Writing and Literature
Irish Unionists and the Empire, 1880–1920
Imperial Eyes
Colonialism's culture
Western Women and Imperialism
Britain and China, 1842–1914
New Frontiers
Cultural missionaries, maternal imperialists, feminist allies
The Oxford History of the British Empire
The Imperial Subject
Rethinking Colonial Categories
The white woman's burden
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |