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Ce Leis Tu? To Whom Do You Belong: Teeth Mothers, Muses And Longing In The Poetry Of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill And John Montague, Jeanne Armstrong Ph.D.
Ce Leis Tu? To Whom Do You Belong: Teeth Mothers, Muses And Longing In The Poetry Of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill And John Montague, Jeanne Armstrong Ph.D.
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This paper compares similarities between the poetry and perspectives of John Montague and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Both poets were impacted by the Irish diaspora since Montague was born in Brooklyn then sent to live with an aunt in Garvaghey when he was four. Ni Dhomhnaill was born in Lancashire and sent at age five to an aunt in Ventry during the summer to learn Irish. Montague admits that he is partly Irish-American and Ni Dhomhnaill considers herself as an exile in her own country, “the little English girl not quite belonging to the Gaeltacht.” According to Ni Dhomhnaill, the diaspora …
Archives For All: Professional Responsibility And Social Justice, Randall C. Jimerson Western Washington University
Archives For All: Professional Responsibility And Social Justice, Randall C. Jimerson Western Washington University
History Faculty and Staff Publications
Archivists should use their power-in determining what records will be preserved for future generations and in interpreting this documentation for researchers-for the benefit of all members of society. By adopting a social conscience for the profession, they can commit themselves to active engagement in the public arena. Archivists can use the power of archives to promote accountability, open government, diversity, and social justice. In doing so, it is essential to distinguish objectivity from neutrality. Advocacy and activism can address social issues without abandoning professional standards of fairness, honesty, detachment, and transparency.
Globalization, Violence Against Women In Border Communities And Cultural Studies, Jeanne Armstrong Ph.D.
Globalization, Violence Against Women In Border Communities And Cultural Studies, Jeanne Armstrong Ph.D.
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
When globalization brings minority communities or developing world countries into abrasive contact with dominant cultures or hegemonic cultures the effect on gender roles can produce a backlash that severely impacts the status of women in these communities or countries. The focus of this paper on violence against women is two sites of ‘borderland’ cultural contact, the ghettoized North and Sub Saharan African neighborhoods and suburbs of Paris and other French cities and the Mexican border city, Ciudad Juarez. The similar issues in these border zones are conflicting sets of gender roles and inadequate or nonexistent legal protection for victims of …