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Voices from the Margins explores the particular emphasis that women writers of Troubles short fiction have placed on gender and the everyday, two areas which have often been relegated to the margins of the «official story» about the Northern Irish conflict and peace process. Women's Troubles short stories integrate the domestic plot into the larger historical framework of political violence, reconceptualizing and blurring the boundaries between the private and the public and capturing the many ways in which the conflict has impacted and been disruptive of the private space. This book shows how these women have rewritten the «official story» with narratives that foreground the personal histories of the Troubles over a public History which has largely been based on the division between the pro-state and anti-state nationalisms in Northern Ireland.
List of contents
Contents: «Almost beneath notice»: Northern Irish Women Writers and Troubles Short Fiction in Context - The «Other» Victims: Women's Lives amidst Intimidation, Segregation and Murder - Forbidden Love: The Romance- across- the- Divide Short Story - Narratives of Incarceration: Life behind Bars and beyond the Barbed Wires - Perpetrators of Violence: Gender and Paramilitary Characterizations - Dealing with the Past and Moving towards a New Future: Troubles Short Fiction after the Good Friday Agreement - «Let the smells of mint go heady and defenceless»: Reshaping the «Official Story» through Gender and the Everyday - Selected Bibliography of Women's Troubles Literary Works, 1969 to Present.
About the author
Mercedes del Campo holds a PhD on women's Troubles short fiction from Ulster University. In 2017, she won the Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in the field of Irish Studies.
