Irish literature
Subtitle: feminist perspectives
By: edited by Patricia Coughlan and Tina O'Toole.
Contributors: Coughlan, Patricia.; O'Toole, Tina.; International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.
Series: IASIL studies in Irish writing; IASIL studies in Irish writing
Publisher: Carysfort Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781904505358
Subjects: Feminist literary criticism -- Ireland; Women authors, Irish -- History and criticism; Irish literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Description: "The collection discusses texts from the early 18th century to the present. It also addresses those meta-narratives by which we understand and mediate these riches for contemporary and future use. The cumulative effect is to call into question, often in new contexts, master narratives of Irish studies. Some essays focus on the aesthetic - a vital category of discussion about a national literature - and its interweaving with ideological purposes. Others concentrate on different phases of the retrieval of women's texts previously occluded by gender bias in canon formation. A central theme is the need to renegotiate the relations of feminism with nationalism and to transact the potential contest of these two important narratives, each possessing powerful emancipatory force. Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives contributes incisively to contemporary debates about Irish culture, gender and ideology."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.