Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction

by Palgrave Macmillan UK

Overview

During the past twenty-five years, Ireland has seen an explosion of women's fiction - hundreds of published works that reimagine the inherited literary traditions and the social contexts of women's lives. Changing Ireland examines women's use of historical fiction, exile literature, Northern war narratives, speculative fiction, and classic 'realism', and looks at the local Irish forms of international women's genres like the romance novel and feminist fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312227104
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/17/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Christine St. Peter is Associate Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction Authorship, the Forbidden Country Women Writing Exile 'Returning from the Ghost Place': Recomposing History 'The War that has gone into us': Troubles from the North Travelling Back Home: The Blockbusters Patricia Scanlan and Maeve Binchy Feminist Fiction Notes Index

Editorial Reviews

'...St Peter has produced a scholarly and useful study...this book will provide a spring-board for students who want to pursue material in this field, a factor which does credit to its author's accessible and generous critical style.' - Eve Patten, Irish Times

From the Publisher

St. Peter's prose is, on the whole, clear and accessible.

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