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Issue 9.1 - Special Issue - "C21st Irish Women's Writing"

‘Where are you from originally’: The cruel optimism of the precarious Irish public sphere in Melatu Uche Okorie’s “Under the Awning”

In “Dual Citizenship” Denise Chaila declares that “there are some people who will spend their whole lives, looking for a definition of home.” Since the citizenship referendum of 2004, many of those born in Ireland are no longer entitled to call the country of their birth their home. Melatu Okorie’s debut collection This Hostel Life (2018) gives voice to this precarious public sphere of contemporary Ireland.

Issue 8.3 – Special Issue "Contemporary Representations of Homelessness" Previous Issues

Alluvium Editorial 8.3: Contemporary Representations of Homelessness

Julia Ditter, Liam Harrison and Martin Goodhead December 7, 2020 No Comments American literature British literature Homelessness Indian film precarity refugees

Special Issue: Contemporary Representations of Homelessness Editors: Julia Ditter, Liam Harrison and Martin Goodhead From theorizations of transcendent homelessness to contemporary narratives of displacement in the wake of war and…

Issue 8.3 – Special Issue "Contemporary Representations of Homelessness" Previous Issues

The Post-Millennial Rise of British Homelessness Literature

Joseph Anderton December 7, 2020 1 Comment British Homelessness poverty precarity voice

Approximately as many full-length novels and autobiographies written by British authors about or largely featuring homelessness were published in the last two decades as in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000. Homelessness seems to be growing in the public and cultural consciousness, and it remains a persistent and pressing issue.