Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

epitomize a living death that is also described in stanza one when the body is stirred to an ëever-resurrectioní and then dies. ...

poem remain sealed, self contained and suffering. Unlike Heaneyís Sweeney who is given wings and exile against his wishes, at th ...

At the Frontiers of Place-Logic McGuckianís allusive poetic territory and refusal to ground the poem within an easily definable ...

To contain myself, I run Till the fawn smoke settles on the earth.^21 The place in the poem is evocative of Belfast at the time ...

she writes. So a further boundary is created here between those who are let into the political subtexts of the poem and those wh ...

easier to see how appropriate they are to manipulation by the powerful in society.^23 Like time, maps regularize human existence ...

ëOn Ballycastle Beachí is comparable with the earlier poem, ëSmokeí, in its refusal of any firm ground on which to locate the po ...

by way of contrast, McGuckian imagines the daughter arriving from a French sea to reclaim her fatherís inheritance.^30 In stanza ...

feminist might view the sea in terms of Cora Kaplanís Sea Changes (1986) as a maternal, saved and womb like place.^32 Women and ...

the parent and child since, according to the proverb: ëYou cannot fit a square peg into a round hole.í The squares and circles a ...

This move towards deterritorialization connects with Dochertyís reading of McGuckianís poetry as problematizing ëplace-logicí. D ...

can be redefined. Thinking in diasporic ways and through notions of hybridity, Hall conceives of post-colonial theory in terms o ...

living in the North of Ireland is, of course, debatable. Perhaps it is because she has not left that her poetry tries to take fl ...

premature post-nationalism before the post-colonial has even happened in the North of Ireland. A French-Born Sea Such a line of ...

In view of Kristeva, it is interesting that Longley genders sect- arianism, the attention to boundaries and delimitation as male ...

capitalist ideology. For Bhabha, cultural diversity must be maintained yet must avoid a situation of cultural apartheid. Respect ...

McGuckianís aspen poetry protects itself against the domination or colonization of any one particular level of understanding. He ...

female figure has fled from her confinement at Knossos, away from the labyrinth and the obsession with finding a centre for the ...

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