Irish studies
Subtitle: geographies and genders
By: edited by Marti D. Lee and Ed Madden.
Contributors: Lee, Marti D.; Madden, Ed, 1963-
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781847185495
Subjects: Sex role -- Ireland -- History; Ireland -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mother Ireland / Eavan Boland; title: Geography and gender in Irish studies today / Ed Madden and Marti D. Lee; title: pt. 1. Borders/prisons: By the Connigar / P.J. Nolan; title: "Everybody knew; nobody said": Transnational laundries, transnational trauma, transnational feminisms / Margot Backus; title: New geographies of voice in contemporary verse in Irish / Sarah E. McKibben; title: The prison gallery: exhibit collaboration between Kilmainham Gaol and Alcatraz / Casey A. Jarrin; title: "The terror of being watched": Panopticism and social discipline in Keith Ridgway's The Long Falling / Jonathan Butler; title: "The first few steps": gender and forgiveness in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto / Jason Buchanan; title: pt. 2. Roles/spaces: The modern pastoral elegy / Conor O'Callaghan; title: The woman with a garden (and a gun): Constance Markievicz / Kristine Byron; title: Gender, espionage, and the Corkwomen spies of 1919-1921 / John Borgonova; title: "Meaniacs" and martyrs: sadomasochistic desire in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy / Shirley Peterson; title: The critique of exile in Teresa Deevy's The Wild Goose / Emily L. Kader; title: pt. 3. Landscapes/cityscapes: Four sleepless similes / Vona Groarke; title: Women in Sir John Temple's The Irish Rebellion / Aaron Thornburg; title: "He is not afraid to go down to the sea": J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea and the poetry of Tchicaya U'Tamsi / Stephen Pocock; title: Oscar Austen? Wilde and the British cinema of the 1990s / Layne Parish Craig; title: Masculine religion, feminine spirituality: the mythical landscape in the poetry of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill / Paul Brown; title: The concertina and the pipes: identities, contexts, and gender in the Irish musical landscape / Christopher J Smith; title: Green beer and Irish cheer: St. Patrick's Day in Columbia, South Carolina / Christopher Damien Rounds.