Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture

Intimate Cartographies
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-19214-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture: Intimate Cartographies demonstrates the ways in which contemporary feminist Irish and diasporic authors, such as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Tana French, cross borders literally (in terms of location), ideologically (in terms of syncretive politics and faiths), figuratively (in terms of conventions and canonicity), and linguistically to develop an epistemological “Fifth Space” of cultural actualization beyond borders.  This bookcontextualizes their work with regard to events in Irish and diasporic history and considers these authors in relation to other more established counterparts such as W.B. Yeats, P.H. Pearse, James Joyce, and Mairtín Ó Cadhain. Exploring the intersections of postcolonial cultural geography, transnational feminisms, and various theologies, Christin M. Mulligan engages with media from  the ninth century to present day and considers how these writer-cartographers reshape Ireland both as real landscape and fantasy island, traversed in order to negotiate place in terms of terrain and subjectivity both within and outside of history in the realm of desire.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulligan, Christin M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Prefatory “Postscript”.- Chapter 2: “Saor an tSeanbhean Bhocht!”: Moving from Cailleach to Spéirbhean.- Chapter 3: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s Traumatic/Erotic Map: Transubstantiating the Body of Ireland.- Chapter 4: Sexing the Changeling: Magic Realism and Queer Geography in the Oeuvres of Yeats and French.- Chapter 5: Coda: Thinking Globally and Geopolitically on Irish Grounds.

Über Autor(innen)

Christin M. Mulligan earned her doctorate in Irish and Global Anglophone Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Her work has appeared in Humanities, Literature Interpretation Theory, and Hypermedia Joyce Studies.