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About This Book
International in scope and based on primary research, this book gathers twelve new essays by critics including both well-established and newer voices. It aims to stimulate further enquiry, research and critical reflection, in sceptical, analytic or celebratory modes, on the riches of Irish literary texts and traditions. The collection discusses texts from the early 18th century to the present. It also addresses those meta-narratives by which we understand and mediate these riches for contemporary and future use. The cumulative effect is to call into question, often in new contexts, master narratives of Irish studies. Some essays focus on the aesthetic - a vital category of discussion about a national literature - and its interweaving with ideological purposes. Others concentrate on different phases of the retrieval of women's texts previously occluded by gender bias in canon formation. A central theme is the need to renegotiate the relations of feminism with nationalism and to transact the potential contest of these two important narratives, each possessing powerful emancipatory force. Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives contributes incisively to contemporary debates about Irish culture, gender and ideology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright Information
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 | Introduction / Patricia Coughlan
- 2 | Foreign Tyrants and Domestic Tyrants: the Public, the Private and Eighteenth-Century Irish Womenâs Writing / ClĂona Ă Gallchoir
- 3 | âKeening the Nation: The Bean Chaointe, the Sean Bhean Bhocht, and Womenâs Lament in Irish Nationalist Narrativeâ / Kathryn Conrad
- 4 | Selina Bunbury, the Pope and the Question of Location / Heidi Hansson
- 5 | âNomadic Subjectsâ in Katherine Cecil Thurstonâs Max / Tina OâToole
- 6 | âAlmost Forgotten Namesâ: Irish Women Poets of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s / Kathy DâArcy
- 7 | The Love Poetry of Nuala NĂ Dhomhnaill / BrĂona Nic Dhiarmada
- 8 | âââI am the Place in Which Things Happenââ: Invisible Immigrant Women Poets of Irelandâ / BorbĂĄla FaragĂł
- 9 | Past, Present and Future. Patterns of Otherness in ĂilĂs NĂ Dhuibhneâs Fiction / Giovanna Tallone
- 10 | Reclaiming Feminine Identities: Anne Enrightâs The Wig My Father Wore / Elke Dâhoker
- 11 | âA Greedy Girlâ and a âNational Thingâ: Gender and History in Anne Enrightâs The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch / Susan Cahill
- 12 | Becoming-Mother-Machine: The Event of Field Day Vols IV & V / Claire Bracken
- 13 | Raising the Veil: Mystery, Myth, and Melancholia in Irish Studies / Moynagh Sullivan
- Index