Relocating the self in Mary Morris's Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Travelling Alone

Author: Wall, Sinéad

Source: The Journal of Romance Studies, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2009 , pp. 75-85(11)

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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

DOI: 10.3167/jrs.2009.090107

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