Overview
- Contributes to Irish studies, geocritical theory, feminist and gender studies, and postcolonial literary studies
- Highlights the role of place in (post)colonial Irish literature and film
- Draws on literature including poetry, fiction, and drama as well as folklore, music, visual art, language, and cinema
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture: Intimate Cartographies demonstrates the ways in which contemporary feminist Irish and diasporic authors, such as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Tana French, cross borders literally (in terms of location), ideologically (in terms of syncretive politics and faiths), figuratively (in terms of conventions and canonicity), and linguistically to develop an epistemological “Fifth Space” of cultural actualization beyond borders. This book contextualizes their work with regard to events in Irish and diasporic history and considers these authors in relation to other more established counterparts such as W.B. Yeats, P.H. Pearse, James Joyce, and Mairtín Ó Cadhain. Exploring the intersections of postcolonial cultural geography, transnational feminisms, and various theologies, Christin M. Mulligan engages with media from the ninth century to present day and considers how these writer-cartographers reshape Ireland both as real landscape and fantasy island, traversed in order to negotiate place in terms of terrain and subjectivity both within and outside of history in the realm of desire.
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About the author
Christin M. Mulligan earned her doctorate in Irish and Global Anglophone Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Her work has appeared in Humanities, Literature Interpretation Theory, and Hypermedia Joyce Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture
Book Subtitle: Intimate Cartographies
Authors: Christin M. Mulligan
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19215-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19214-3Published: 03 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19217-4Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19215-0Published: 12 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory