Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry Sarah Fulford Peter Lang ...

Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry ...

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Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry Sarah Fulford PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • N ...

Die Deutsche Bibliothek – CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Fulford, Sarah: Gendered spaces in contemporary Irish poetry / Sarah Fulford. – B ...

Contents Acknowledgements Main Introduction Introduction to Part One Part One: Ireland and the Post-Colonial 1 Seamus Heaney: B ...

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Acknowledgements With many thanks to the following: Sara Berkeley, Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muld ...

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Main Introduction Myth and Motherland There has been some discussion of the connection between gender and nation in Irish discou ...

nationality, and she loosely connects this trend with post-colonial and postmodern theories. However, Wills’s discussion is conf ...

proves that post-colonial understandings of identity can provide insight into the political and aesthetic concerns of Irish poet ...

displacement, and to consider what effects this has on the language of the poetry. Taking Flight from Mother Ireland At first gl ...

Kearneyís work, discussion problematizes how the notion of migration, introduced in the work of Heaney, is developed within cont ...

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Introduction to Part One Part One: Ireland and the Post-Colonial ...

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Introduction to Part One Problematizing the Post-Colonial From the very beginning it is vital to explore the complications invol ...

its intersections with other unfolding relations.^4 As Hall indicates: Ireland, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, India and Jamaica ar ...

the helpfulness of a post-colonial vision for the island of Ireland, resenting ‘intellectual holiday romances in a post-colonial ...