Changing Ireland

Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Kenneth A. Loparo, Christine St. Peter

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9781349411702
  9780333749340
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230596467
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Europäische Literaturkritik

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Authorship, the Forbidden Country
• 3 Women Writing Exile
• 4 Returning from the ‘Ghost Place’: Recomposing History
• 5 ‘The War That Has Gone into Us’: Troubles from the North
• 6 Traveling Back Home: the Blockbusters of Patricia Scanlan and Maeve Binchy
• 7 Feminist Fiction
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index