Voices from the Margins: Gender and the Everyday in Women's Pre- And Post- Agreement Troubles Short Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781788743303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 316 str.

Eamon Maher; Mercedes del Campo

Opis

Voices from the Margins explores how women writers of Troubles short fiction have rewritten the « official story » of the conflict and the peace process by placing thematic emphasis on gender and the everyday and by foregrounding the personal histories behind the public History of the Troubles.

Spis treści

Contents: «Almost beneath notice»: Northern Irish Women Writers and Troubles Short Fiction in Context - The «Other» Victims: Women's Lives amidst Intimidation, Segregation and Murder - Forbidden Love: The Romance- across- the- Divide Short Story - Narratives of Incarceration: Life behind Bars and beyond the Barbed Wires - Perpetrators of Violence: Gender and Paramilitary Characterizations - Dealing with the Past and Moving towards a New Future: Troubles Short Fiction after the Good Friday Agreement - «Let the smells of mint go heady and defenceless»: Reshaping the «Official Story» through Gender and the Everyday - Selected Bibliography of Women's Troubles Literary Works, 1969 to Present.

O autorze

Mercedes del Campo holds a PhD on women's Troubles short fiction from Ulster University. In 2017, she won the Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in the field of Irish Studies.