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- W47801845 abstract "McCourt's book, Angela 'S Ashes: a Memoir of a Childhood, Flamingo, 1997.Extrapolating from this book, it is clear that McCourt constructs a wide variety of categories of people--English, Protestants, Jehovah Witnesses, Muslims, Jews, Americans, Africans, Indians, the Irish upper classes--as Other. However, my interest of this article is rather more limited. It is restricted to those who would, broadly, be termed non-Europeans and/or of non-European origin in McCourt's novelised memoir of his childhood to young adulthood.A rigorous critique of a book like McCourtls is necessitated by its power within modern literary discourse. The book was--and has remained--among the top best sellers, at least in the English speaking world. It has been given almost mythical importance by equating the author with Charles Dickens. The book, however is steeped in racistdiscourse that has so far gone uncontested. As an autobiography, the author has been afforded a ready camouflage that disguises the work as a harmless narrative of an oppressed child. Nothing is further from the truth when it comes to the oppression of the Other in the very same work. This article rejects the assumption that McCourt was simply and innocently retrieving experience that was trapped within what Foucault called the discursive formation of the time. Instead, one should view McCourt's work as a contemporary one and an important element in ourday-to-day Eurocentric discourse about the Other. While much of McCourt's Limerick is no more, the portrait of the Other that he details can still be detected today in the Irish media, and, indeed, in that of most other European countries. Others are depicted as dependent, dirty, hungry, sickly and untrustworthy. It is precisely these images that are contested in this article." @default.
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- W47801845 title "McCourt's Angela's Ashes and the Portrait of the Other." @default.
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