Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

specific history. There is little sense of a foundational ënational Heimí, gravity or fixity within the poem. ëThe Mixed Marriag ...

Were it indeed an accident of birth That she looks on the gentle earth And the seemingly gentle sky Through one brown, and one b ...

The image of the ëtwinsí in the motherís class also produces a mirroring effect since ëshe could never tell which was whichí, an ...

coloniser and colonised breaks down through irony, imitation and subversioní.^46 Graham attempts to critique the containment of ...

typified by his poem ëTwiceí where the schoolboy stands grinning at both ends of the school photograph, and which provides a mem ...

Introduction to Part Two Part Two: Ireland, Nationalism and Feminism ...

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Introduction to Part Two The National Body, Irish Feminism and Fluid Identities There is a tension within work by female poets b ...

colonial predecessor.í^2 Coulter does concede that religion offered a communal bond against colonial aggression but she does not ...

women across history. For example, it could be argued that feminist and nationalist figures as different as Maud Gonne and Berna ...

colonized people. It would also be true to say that many Northern women who are sympathetic to nationalism are nonetheless conce ...

community, though dragged forward faster by Westminster legislation, is as traditionally patriarchal as Catholic nationalism.í^8 ...

hood.í^12 Boland sets out in her essays to question a culture of male oriented nationalism which tended to position the feminine ...

these philosophers in this ëdefinitioní provides a working example of the problem with establishing a common ground from which I ...

poets oscillate between being grounded by the national and achieving imaginative transcendence. How far do they move towards mor ...

Plurabelle to demonstrate a cruel, insane, mocking contradiction of the circumscribed realities of Irish women which is hardly o ...

feminine becomes associated with lack and the irrational. Fraser notices how Kristeva deconstructs and decenters feminine identi ...

the English tongue is imagined as not only imperialist but also male, thus evading the ways in which Irish culture is also plagu ...

line between sense and sensibility, an enlightenment rationale and an emotional romanticism, and men and women, noting that it i ...

Kristevaís thinking, as does Nancy Fraser. Butlerís assessment of Kristeva leads her to an important conclusion in Bodies That M ...