Two Irelands
Rebecca Pelan analyzes religion, region, class, and national and ethnic identity as crucial contexts in shaping feminist consciousness in the two Irelands, and compares the divergence of feminist perspectives to be found North and South of the border. The very different histories of the North and South are reflected in their literature. Pelan concentrates primarily on radical fiction produced between 1970 and the middle 1990s, finding that a period in which Irish women's writing proliferated and seems in hindsight to have had an usually cohesive political agenda. After taking in turn writing from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, she surveys the new minefield she finds in the following decade.
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- Pelan, Rebecca