Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women
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anthology
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Bowen's Court
Bowen’s Court
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Constance Markievicz
day
deirdre
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Eva Trout
feminist literary criticism
field
Field Day Anthology
gendered national identity in Irish fiction
IRA Man
Irish cultural identity
Irish Housewives
Irish Nation
Irish Nationalists
Irish Women
Irish Women's History
Irish Women's Writing
Irish Women’s History
Irish Women’s Writing
Kristeva theory
Kristeva's Argument
Kristeva's Foreigner
kristevan
Kristevan Theory
Kristeva’s Argument
Kristeva’s Foreigner
Land Reclamation
madden
marginalisation studies
Mother Daughter Relationship
Mother Daughter Story
mother-daughter narratives
nationalism
Nationalist Women
Northern Ireland
Northern Irish literature
Northern Irish Women
Railway Station Man
Reverend Mother
Rita Golden
theory
UWUC
woman
writer
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754635383
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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During much of the twentieth century, Irish women's position was on the boundaries of national life. Using Julia Kristeva's theories of nationhood, often particularly relevant to Ireland, this study demonstrates that their marginalization was to women's, and indeed the nation's, advantage as Irish women writers used their voice to subvert received pieties both about women and about the Irish nation. Kristevan theories of the other, the foreigner, the semiotic, the mother, and the sacred are explored in authors as diverse as Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Edna O'Brien, Mary Dorcey, Jennifer Johnston, and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, as well as authors from Northern Ireland like Deirdre Madden, Polly Devlin, and Mary Morrissy. These writers, whose voices have frequently been sidelined or misunderstood because they write against the grain of their country's cultural heritage, finally receive their due in this important contribution to Irish and gender studies.
Heather Ingman teaches in the English Department and in the Center for Gender Studies at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. She has published extensively on women's writing, including Women's Fiction Between the Wars (1998).
