Heather Ingman

Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women (eBook, ePUB)

Nation and Gender

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 209
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351877213
• Artikelnr.: 47954605

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Irish women in the 20th century
Reaching out to the other in the nation
Dialog from the margins
Reclaiming the mother in the mother-daughter story
Translating between cultures: a Kristevan reading of the theme of the foreigner
The feminine and the sacred
Northern Ireland
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.