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“Everything and Nothing”: Exhibiting Irishness at the Chicago World Fair of 1893
… an Irishness shaped by Ireland’s long history of colonial rule. For Irish Americans living in the United States during the late nineteenth century, the Irish Villages offered a particularly well-suited opportunity to present an identity that would facilitate their acceptance into American society. …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… how one of the most powerfully enduring colonial tropes about the savage Other seeped into the literary imagination of English-language authors and informed much of their imagery. I read cannibalism as a complicated trope: as both a symptom of imperial racism and as an unstable …