Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

ëpolishedí rather than smashed. The poem then is a composition that tries to fight composition. The weeping woman is imagined as ...

Daylight becomes both ëblack-/ and-whiteí, there is a blurring of boundaries, and the lines over-spill and seep into one another ...

designate the people ìas oneîí.^42 This demands a reading of ëdouble temporalityí or attending to what is in-between the ëpedago ...

places.í^45 This begs the question posed by Gayatri Spivak in ëCan the Subaltern Speak?í (1988), where she asks who is included ...

self-erasureí: ëshe has adopted as an element of form a silence surrounding the words on the page or in the air of speech.í^49 R ...

ëI was a voiceí with the effect of taking a distance from her utterance and ceasing the misrepresentation of herself. When Meane ...

risks another death as she provides yet another representation or misrepresentation of femininity; third, with only misrepresent ...

If a colony is a wound what will heal it? After such injuries what difference do we feel? No answer in the air, on the water, in ...

national home is unhomely and so the woman at the threshold of a doorway turns off ë[t]he harsh yellow/ Porch lightí and stands ...

as does Bolandís representation of Anna Liffey, that authentic notions of the ërealí are part of the misrepresentations of Histo ...

tackle a larger one. Boland turns to irony as her shadowy muse so as to allude to what was unseen and unheard, in her former mis ...

5 Medbh McGuckian’s Disidentification I appeal to the God who fashions edges Whether such turning-points exist^1 Postmodern McGu ...

work understand her in terms of a male tradition and this has created a mode of ëfeminine writingí with which they are complicit ...

were dictated not by any specifically feminist intention preceding the poem, but rather by a reading of the dictionary.^6 But it ...

Enfantí must be either little used or a neologism.^9 It could translate as ëhidden-childí, yet the way French compound nouns pre ...

Woman and Territory The Flower Master (1982) is a collection that contains many poems about border-crossings and threshold state ...

of Judaeo-Christian civilization since this is the tale of Creation with all its emphasis on the male as creator. Stanza two map ...

The womanís ëslashed/ Sleeves of purpleí are evocative of Elizabethan clothing but also her body after birth. She remembers the ...

the world strange to us.^15 As McGuckianís poem undermines conventional formulations of meaning, it is difficult to contain what ...

war in Belfast, and political readings of the poem, whereby the sealed hotel could be a prison or a place of safety, are merely ...