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The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power
Jennifer M. Jeffers
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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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312238391
SKU
V9780312238391
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About Jennifer M. Jeffers
JENNIFER M. JEFFERS is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Cleveland State University. She has edited a collection of critical essays on Samuel Beckett's drama, Samuel Beckett: A Casebook, and co-edited with H. Gene Blocker an aesthetics and critical theory reader, Contextualizing Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard). She has another book in press Uncharted Space: The End of ... Read more
Reviews for The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power
'...an efficient instrument for its combination of historical, theoretical, and textual analysis.' - Choice 'The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century is an interesting read for students of Irish literary studies, in that it explores the construction of gender and sexuality in novels written in Ireland in the last twelve years.' - Nessa Cronin, ... Read more