Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

pole to poleí, the female figure is stretched in a middle ground between north and south, black and white, or between binaries w ...

Opening the Floodgates In Patterns of Dissonance (1991), Rosi Braidottiís feminist philosophy uses Deleuze to her advantage and ...

dominated the Western episteme since the Enlightenment.^60 The challenge then for poets and theorists is be strangers to themsel ...

wearing the weeds of birth. (p.75) Water is also connected with feminine tides as the poem moves into womb imagery where the wor ...

it is in this way that the poetic subject becomes sea-borne. Yet the poem flutters as she is ëborneí in such a way as to be both ...

semiotic incoherence that would be a muteness, a darkness, and a pre- linguistic silence. Berkeleyís poems can only allude to th ...

but looks ëbetween/ The lines.í Berkeley does not offer a simple choice between facts and water; this binary either/or mode of p ...

7 Woman and Nation: Readings of Authenticity There was no corner so quiet that the problem of authenticity would not arise in it ...

question the pathos of authenticity that informs the construction of ëWomaní and ëNationí. Nuala NÌ Dhomhnaill has criticized ët ...

Your name is a fossil, a petrified tree Your name means less than nothing.^5 The poet claims to be unable to construe the nation ...

commodification, or even as though identity and meaning have been commodified.^6 Both the tranquilizer and the television are me ...

Dhomhnaillís Gaelic text, semi-anglicized into the word ëfeaigí which is neither orthodox Irish nor English.^9 OíConnor also not ...

of this is found in her poem ëCathleení (1991, 1992) where she reassesses the figure of Mother Ireland. In his own poem entitled ...

on her shoes in the second stanza. NÌ Dhomhnaill draws on a male bardic tradition as it appreciates the woman as nation only to ...

characters in the pub scenes from James Joyceís Ulysses (1922). The speakerís reliance upon typical phrases that have been heard ...

As Jacob Golomb notices in his book In Search of Authenticity (1995): The principle aim of writers on authenticity was to evoke ...

home becomes unheimlich and overrun with strangers. The effect of this is that the subjects of such a territory occupy contested ...

The danger I want to draw attention to resides not in the inscription of the alter/native meta-text as such, but in the specific ...

difference. In his essay ëOrientalism Reconsideredí (1986), Edward Said has criticized anti-imperialist critiques that ëdepend a ...

relationship between the singularity of his writing and the assimilative politics of a homogenizing nationalist attitude that is ...