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Women and exile in contemporary Irish fiction /

By: McWilliams, Ellen [author.].
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xi, 243 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780230285767; 9780230285767:; 0230285767.Subject(s): English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | Women in literature | Emigration and immigration -- Fiction | Exiles in literature | National characteristics, Irish, in literatureDDC classification: 809 MCW
Contents:
Women, forms of exile, and diasporic identities -- Outside history: exile and myths of the Irish feminine in Julia O'Faolain's No country for young men and The Irish signorina -- Negotiating with the motherland: exile and the Irish woman writer in Edna O'Brien's The country girls trilogy and The light of evening -- Relative visibility: women, exile, and censorship in John McGahern's The leavetaking and amongst women -- Architectures of exile and self-exile in William Trevor's Felicia's journey and The story of Lucy Gault -- The refusenik returnee and reluctant emigrant in Colm Tóibín's The South and Brooklyn -- Ireland is something that often happens elsewhere: displaced and disrupted histories in Anne Enright's What are you like? and The gathering.
Summary: McWilliams examines the representation of the Irish woman migrant and ideas of exile in the contemporary Irish novel. Women have frequently been overlooked or made to serve an emblematic or symbolic function in the portrayal of exile in Irish writing, but more recent treatments of exile and emigration show a keen interest in reclaiming the history of the Irish woman emigrant and in explicitly addressing this lacuna.
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Includes bibliographical reference (pages 214-229) and index.

Women, forms of exile, and diasporic identities -- Outside history: exile and myths of the Irish feminine in Julia O'Faolain's No country for young men and The Irish signorina -- Negotiating with the motherland: exile and the Irish woman writer in Edna O'Brien's The country girls trilogy and The light of evening -- Relative visibility: women, exile, and censorship in John McGahern's The leavetaking and amongst women -- Architectures of exile and self-exile in William Trevor's Felicia's journey and The story of Lucy Gault -- The refusenik returnee and reluctant emigrant in Colm Tóibín's The South and Brooklyn -- Ireland is something that often happens elsewhere: displaced and disrupted histories in Anne Enright's What are you like? and The gathering.

McWilliams examines the representation of the Irish woman migrant and ideas of exile in the contemporary Irish novel. Women have frequently been overlooked or made to serve an emblematic or symbolic function in the portrayal of exile in Irish writing, but more recent treatments of exile and emigration show a keen interest in reclaiming the history of the Irish woman emigrant and in explicitly addressing this lacuna.

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