Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction

2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-28576-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4238 g

Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discourses of exile in the Irish literary tradition and examines how they engage with the complex history of Irish emigration.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McWilliams, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Women, Forms of Exile, and Diasporic Identities 2. 'Outside History': Exile and Myths of the Irish Feminine in Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men and The Irish Signorina 3. Negotiating with the Motherland: Exile and the Irish Woman Writer in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy and The Light of Evening 4. Relative Visibility: Women, Exile, and Censorship in John McGahern's The Leavetaking and Amongst Women 5. Architectures of Exile and Self-Exile in William Trevor's Felicia's Journey and The Story of Lucy Gault 6. The Refusenik Returnee and Reluctant Emigrant in Colm Tóibín's The South and Brooklyn 7. 'Ireland is Something That Often Happens Elsewhere': Displaced and Disrupted Histories in Anne Enright's What Are You Like? and The Gathering Afterword Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen McWilliams is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (2009) and has received a number of awards for research, including an Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship (2011) and a Fulbright Scholar Award (2012).