Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Butler does not entirely destroy Kristevaís psychoanalytic theories as does Fraser since, as she uses and abuses Kristevaís work ...

4 Eavan Boland, Monuments, Misrepresentation A river is not a woman Ö Any more than A woman is a river,^1 National Monuments Hom ...

as a national monument. Smyth criticizes this static representation of the Irish womanís body as limiting, de-eroticized and imp ...

colonialism.^6 However, in her essay ëOutside Historyí, Boland imagines female subjects in terms of ëethical directioní or passa ...

identity, particularly in colonized and post-colonial culture, which does not take account of the diversity of Irish womenís wri ...

are subjected to the possibility of difference.^12 In this way, it is History as a continuum that is outside ënow timeí as it at ...

silverí. The poem also introduces the ëbodyí and ëfleshí of a ërealí mother who is neither a Virgin mother nor a Roman goddess b ...

Boland is in danger of eliding the differences between patriarchal victimization and colonial exploitation. Yet in doing this, B ...

language.^17 The Dickinsonesque dashes in Bolandís text suggest a silence being alluded to within the poem. The hyphens signal a ...

access the present moment the ëhistorical materialistí has to stop history. To taste ënow timeí, the agent has to break out of ë ...

Moreover, the setting is rural rather than urban and there is a sense of the Achill woman being as ëuncontemporaryí and as mytho ...

create her individualized sense of a womanís time, she has also to ëchange the worldí of the nation and move away from a nationa ...

South recognize the problematic nature of attempting to reconstruct gendered national identity. Graham develops the view of Gaya ...

Boland, in effect, is a suffragette. She seeks not to challenge the basis of the poetís authority, but to widen the political co ...

Meaney explains Kristevaís notion of a third generation of feminism which is a mixture of the demand for ëinsertion into history ...

between the two worlds of service to his female partner and loyalty to the king. The two worlds come into collision and the worl ...

Achill woman, it is not told in the poem. All we are left with is an image of a woman writer located in a certain place experien ...

In her essay ëThe Woman, The Place, The Poetí (1991) Boland notices the evasion of a space for oneself in history: ëthere is the ...

relies too much on reducing male identities in the name of female irreducibility. What is interesting, is how Kristeva, Irigaray ...

semblance, phantasma or ghost of a woman rather than the ërealí thing. Once more, the poem holds within it the recurring tension ...