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Öğe Representations of The Irish Diaspora, (post)memory and identity in Maude Casey’s Over the Water(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2018-05) Işık, EmrahThe concepts of immigration and diaspora have always been central to the lives of Irish people. Even if many of them chose not to leave Ireland, it was not possible to get free from the inevitable consequences of the migration, which was mostly triggered by famines or political and historical conflicts between the Irish and the English. Involuntary or traumatic migration, which is also elaborately embraced in Maude Casey’s Over the Water, led the immigrants into the diaspora space. In this regard, this study intends to examine cultural experiences of the first and second generation Irish immigrants and to highlight to what extent they have undergone the cultural conflict between the host and the home culture. Through the second generation representative, Mary, the study also foregrounds the generational conflict in mother-daughter relationship and the identity crisis of the second generation subject who cannot develop her diasporic identity in the face of the absence of ‘home’ which is negotiated by means of the immigrant family’s visit to the homeland during a summer holiday in Ireland. In this respect, the study draws on contemporary diaspora, memory, postmemory and identity theories and theorists in order to discuss the experience of the Irish immigrants with regard to such concepts as diaspora, cultural memory, (post)memory of immigrants shaped as a result of traumatic historical conflicts, diaspora space, diaspora identity, problematization of ‘home’ for the second generation members of immigrant families.
