Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture

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.

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

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
"Through close reading and diligent theoretical frameworks ... this study gracefully traverses time and space. ... This is an admittedly ambitious study, traversing genres, languages, canons, genders, oceans, and centuries. ... given the design of its scope and purpose, it admirably achieves both breadth and depth. Offering us a relatively new voice in Irish Studies, this monograph offers us a glimpse into the possibilities and energy ... . Her analysis is rigorous and her conclusions are unapologetically hopeful ... ." (Christine Cusick, Estudios Irlandeses, Vol. 17, 2022)

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Prefatory Postscript.- Chapter 2: Saor an tSeanbhean Bhocht!: Moving from Cailleach to Spéirbhean.- Chapter 3: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Traumatic/Erotic Map: Transubstantiating the Body of Ireland.- Chapter 4: Sexing the Changeling: Magic Realism and Queer Geography in the Oeuvres of Yeats and French.- Chapter 5: Coda: Thinking Globally and Geopolitically on Irish Grounds.