Irish Studies Review
Volume 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-97

Dreaming of home: Migrant spaces in Felicia's Journey (Article)

Holohan C.*
  • a Huston School of Film and Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Abstract

Hamid Naficy's analysis of migrant cinema focuses on the varying relationships to the home-space within émigré films, shifting between outward-looking journeys of aspiration and imaginative returns to the lost homeland. The central narrative concern in such films is the search for a space in which to belong. Felicia's Journey depicts a young girl's migration from Ireland to the Midlands of England in search of the home that she fantasises finding with her former lover and father of her unborn child. Her encounter with the psychopath Hilditch brings the question of home-founding to the fore and reveals the fantasy and distortions of memory which underpin all constructions of home. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.

Author Keywords

Hamid Naficy Road movie Home-space migrant cinema

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79951876439&doi=10.1080%2f09670882.2011.541652&partnerID=40&md5=7f56bf9d40a588741ada49dad2ef696a
DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2011.541652
ISSN: 09670882
Original Language: English