Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction : The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland / Ellen Scheible.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheible, Ellen, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women's Writing.

Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women's Writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body politics in literature.

Irish fiction.

Women and literature--Ireland--History.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Body Politics in the (Home) Nation Chapter 1: Mirroring and the Female Body in James Joyce Chapter 2: The Danger of the Domestic Body: Bridget Cleary, Big House Modernism, and Tana French Chapter 3: Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminized Body: The Contemporary Irish Gothic Chapter 4: Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing Chapter 5: "Boneless, Grotesque": Institutionalized Masculinity and Female Containment in Tana French's The Witch Elm Chapter 6: Normal People, Then and Now: James Joyce and Sally Rooney Conclusion Index

ISBN:

9781350429130

1350429139

OCLC:

1463572985