Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction
The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland
Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction
The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland
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Description
Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides readings of the power and authority of the feminized body in Ireland.
Scheible dissects the ways that 'the woman-as-symbol' remains consistent in Irish literary representations of national experience in Irish fiction and shows how this problematizes the role of women in Ireland by underscoring the oppression of sexuality and gender that characterized Irish culture during the twentieth century.
Examining works by Elizabeth Bowen, Pamela Hinkson, Emma Donoghue, Tana French, Sally Rooney and James Joyce, this book demonstrates that the definition of Irish nationhood in our contemporary experience of capitalism and biopolitics is dependent on the intertwining and paradoxical tropes of a traditional, yet equally sexual, feminine identity which has been quelled by violence and reproduction.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Mirroring and the Female Body in James Joyce
Chapter 2: The Danger of the Domestic Body: Bridget Cleary, Big House Modernism, and Tana French
Chapter 3: Reflection, Anxiety, and the Feminized Body: The Contemporary Irish Gothic
Chapter 4: Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing
Chapter 5: “Boneless, Grotesque”: Institutionalized Masculinity and Female Containment in Tana French's The Witch Elm
Chapter 6: Normal People, Then and Now: James Joyce and Sally Rooney
Conclusion
Index
Product details
| Published | Jul 23 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781350429147 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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