The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power

Jeffers, J.

The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity-the perennial Irish problem-can be gauged at the basic level of sexual and gender identity in contrast to or in alliance with political, social, religious or cultural norms. All mechanisms that have gone into controlling the body-gender regulation, violence, desire, religious taboos-can all be reinterpreted through the body in motion.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-07-20

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780230602380

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-09554-1

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 207