Irish women's prison writing : Mother Ireland's rebels, 1960s-2010s / Red Washburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Washburn, Red, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in Irish literature.

Routledge Studies in Irish Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners' writings, Irish--Northern Ireland--History and criticism.

Prisoners' writings, Irish.

English literature--Northern Ireland--Women authors.

English literature.

Women prisoners--Northern Ireland.

Women prisoners.

English literature--Northern Ireland--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature--Northern Ireland--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

This book explores 50 years of Irish women's prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles. This volume analyzes political communiqués, petitions, news coverage, prison files, personal letters, poetry and short prose, and memoirs, highlighting the personal correspondence, auto/biographical narratives, and poetry of the following key women: Bernadette McAliskey, Eileen Hickey, Mairéad Farrell, Síle Darragh, Ella O'Dwyer, Martina Anderson, Dolours Price, Marian McGlinchey (formerly Marian Price), and Áine and Eibhlín Nic Giolla Easpaig (Ann and Eileen Gillespie), Roseleen Walsh, and Margaretta D'Arcy. This text builds on different fields and discourses to reimagine gender and genre as central to an interdisciplinary and intersectional prison archive. Centering Irish women's prison writings, in order to challenge canonization in history and literature, this volume argues that women's lives and words offer a different view of gender and nation as well as offer a fuller and more inclusive archive of Irish history and literature. Additionally, this book will point to the ways in which their politics of everyday life and their cultural work is a form of anti-colonial civil rights feminism, for it speaks truth to power in a world in which compliance and silence are valued. Overall, this text focuses on rethinking and recasting women's voices and words in order to document and promote the ongoing Irish freedom struggle from an abolitionist feminist perspective.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Intersections of Theory/ History/ Auto/biography/ Methodology Chapter 2: Civil Rights March Script: Rhetoric, Politics, and Tactics in Bernadette Devlin's Memoir The Price of My SoulChapter 3: In the Footsteps of the Officers-in-Command: The Comradeship of No Wash, Hunger Strikes, and Fecal Art in the Prison Prose of Eileen Hickey, Mairéad Farrell, and Síle DarraghChapter 4: "Our Only Weapon Was Our Pen": Strip-Searching and Resistance in the Politics and Prison Epistolary of Ella O'Dwyer and Martina AndersonChapter 5: Sisters in Shackles: Sisterhood, Exile, and Force-Feeding in the Writings of the Price and Gillespie Sisters Chapter 6: Writing on the Walls: Power and Struggle in the Prison Poetry of Roseleen WalshChapter 7: Bloody Writing: Menstruation and Herstory in Margaretta D'Arcy's Tell Them Everything Chapter 8: Conclusion: Towards an Interdisciplinary Prison Archive and an Intersectional Abolitionist Feminism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-321492-4

1-000-54600-4

1-000-54596-2

1-003-21492-4

9781003214922

OCLC:

1293242219