Autonomy, migration and transculturality: From Peele, Shakespeare, and Gay to the Windrush Generation

Lennon, Wendy (2024). Autonomy, migration and transculturality: From Peele, Shakespeare, and Gay to the Windrush Generation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

'Autonomy, Migration and Transculturality: Peele, Shakespeare and Gay to the Windrush Generation' is a tripartite conversation brought together with a collectively defined goal to re-member, re-connect, and reconcile the seemingly disparate triangulation of themes, epochs, and locations. The catalyst for this Literary-Geohistorical Enquiry project was a collision of literary, geographical, and historical migrations.

To explore these migrations, I have researched and explored a series of Literary-Geohistorical Enquiry Questions, such as: What are the key determinants and connective tissue that ignites and informs the conversation between these particular migrations? How do the lives and writing of George Peele, William Shakespeare, and John Gay converse with real-world migrations? How does the writing of George Peele, William Shakespeare, and John Gay converse with each other? Are there traces of these encounters and periods of mobility continuing in our contemporary world?

Consolidating the fragmented understanding of the cross-cultural encounters within and between the literature, histories, and geographies, this interdisciplinary, intertheoretical scholarship seeks to demonstrate their interrelationships.

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Doctorates > Ph.D.

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