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Settler colonists south of the south: Maria Luisa Palumbo, ‘Histories of the Channel of Sicily: Architecture, Colonization, and Migrations across the Mediterranean Shores (1932–43)’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 122, 2, 2023, pp. 257-279 »

Travelling settler colonialism: Mary M. Burke, ‘County Cork, Mississippi: Elizabeth Bowen, Settler-Colonialism, and Welty’s “The Bride of the Innisfallen”‘, Eudora Welty Review, 15, 2023, pp. 145-150

27Apr23

Excerpt: Eudora Welty’s The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, in which over half the narratives are set outside the author’s native Mississippi, confounded critics and fans when it was published in 1955. Welty’s 1951 title tale was inspired by her stay in the County Cork “Big House” (ancestral mansion) of writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973). As such, rather than lacking a sense of place—as was charged in 1955—the title story’s opening evocation of Ireland and America’s shared settler-colonial histories suggests that Welty could see her own Deep South in Bowen’s County Cork.


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