Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction [electronic resource] /
McWilliams, Ellen.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; 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 Brooklyn7 '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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Great Britain-History.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Fiction.