Embodying the nation: Post-colonial Irish women's fiction
type: CreativeWork
description: "Irish literary criticism has long been interested in the politics of literature and its role in decolonizing Irish culture, but it has assumed such a strict separation between public and private that ""women's issues"" have not been considered political topics in Irish literary history and therefore women's writing has been profoundly neglected. The inclusion of women writers demands that we rewrite Irish literary history under a broader definition of ""politics,"" attending to how women writers blur the oppositions--Protestant/Catholic, public/private, colonizer/colonized--that have underwritten their neglect to date."
abstract: "Irish literary criticism has long been interested in the politics of literature and its role in decolonizing Irish culture, but it has assumed such a strict separation between public and private that ""women's issues"" have not been considered political topics in Irish literary history and therefore women's writing has been profoundly neglected. The inclusion of women writers demands that we rewrite Irish literary history under a broader definition of ""politics,"" attending to how women writers blur the oppositions--Protestant/Catholic, public/private, colonizer/colonized--that have underwritten their neglect to date."
author: Onkey, Lauren Elizabeth
language: eng
keywords: Literature, English
date published: 2011-05-07T12:18:10Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:25:14Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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