Wall, S. 2009. Relocating the self in Mary Morris's Nothing to declare: memoirs of a woman travelling alone. Journal of Romance Studies. 9 (1), pp. 75-85. https://doi.org/10.3167/jrs.2009.090107
| Title | Relocating the self in Mary Morris's Nothing to declare: memoirs of a woman travelling alone |
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| Authors | Wall, S. |
| Abstract | This article analyses the memoirs of a United States citizen travelling in Mexico in the late 1970s and explores how she relocates her self with respect to a multiple other in order to gain autonomy and accept her estrangement from her home. Using a framework of Kristevan theory, and Strangers to Ourselves in particular, I analyse how Morris’s travel memoir embarks on multiple crossings of self and others in her attempts at finding her own inner foreigner. |
| Keywords | Mary Morris, Mexico, women, travel, writing, Kristeva, self, foreign, estrangement |
| Journal | Journal of Romance Studies |
| Journal citation | 9 (1), pp. 75-85 |
| ISSN | 1473-3536 |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3167/jrs.2009.090107 |
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| Published | 2009 |