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T1 Cultural Boundaries and Hybridisation in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle: Implications for Irish- Spanish Identity
A1 Bernal McGee, Aoife Itziar
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Kate O’Brien
K1 Mary Lavelle
K1 Irish-Spanish Identity
K1 Cultural boundaries
K1 Hybridity
K1 Identidad hispano-irlandesa
K1 Fronteras culturales
K1 Hibridación
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB This dissertation explores some of the ways in which Kate O’Brien’s novel Mary Lavelle (1936)enables a reflection on Irish-Spanish identity through the dynamics of cultural borders and hybridity.Departing from the dominant reading of the relationship between the UK and Spain, it proposesinstead to examine the connection between Ireland and Spain as a symbolic encounter that allows usto understand the tensions, both religious and national, present both in the novel and in the author’sown life. Furthermore, it argues that the novel constructs a liminal zone in which hybrid, desiring andtransitional identities question national and religious essentialisms. To this end, it draws onpostcolonial theories, gender studies and the notion of the lyrical novel. Ultimately, it contends thatthe novel offers a critical reflection on identity as a dynamic and negotiated practice in peripheralEuropean contexts.
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80611
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80611
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 12-feb-2026