Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction - The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland

Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides readings of the power and authority of the feminized body in Ireland. Scheible dissects the ways that ''the woman-as-symbol'' remains consistent in Irish literary representations of national experience in Irish fiction and shows how this problematizes the role of women in Ireland by underscoring the oppression of sexuality and gender that characterized Irish culture during the twentieth century. Examining works by Elizabeth Bowen, Pamela Hinkson, Emma Donoghue, Tana French, Sally Rooney and James Joyce, this book demonstrates that the definition of Irish nationhood in our contemporary experience of capitalism and biopolitics is dependent on the intertwining and paradoxical tropes of a traditional, yet equally sexual, feminine identity which has been quelled by violence and reproduction.>

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Scheible, Scheible Ellen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2025
• EAN: 9781350429109
• ISBN: 978-1-350-42910-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: from c 2000