"Home Charms": unpacking an Irish immigrant woman's home through speculative design. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gillett, Molly-Claire
• Is Part Of: Text and performance quarterly. Volume 39:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 388
• Page End: 406
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Home -- design -- performance -- material culture -- Ireland -- diaspora -- immigration -- women; Oral communication -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; 302.224205
• DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2019.1658891
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1046-2937

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Maeve Brennan's 1953 short story "The Bride, " describes the isolation and complicated homesickness of a young Irish woman living as a domestic servant in New York. Taking Brennan's story as a starting point, this paper uses a designed and made object – a set of digitally modeled and 3D printed Home Charms –as research-creation based methodology to investigate the spatial, material, and performative implications of settlement in a new domestic space, especially for women who lived, worked, and were conceptually identified with the home, its architecture and material culture.