Feminine Nation: Performance, Gender and Resistance in the Works of John McGahern and Neil Jordan - Couverture souple

Rogers, Lori

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761809511 ISBN 13 : 9780761809517

Editeur : University Press of America, 1998

Synopsis

This book examines two prominent Irish authors, Neil Jordan and John McGahern. Jordan is famous for his films, most notably The Crying Game, and this work studies both his films and his fiction. McGahern is the most respected, lauded Irish novelist since Joyce; a writer who broke the mold of Anglo-Irish writing after it settled into a conservative rut in the 1950s. The works of Jordan and McGahern, involved with seemingly minor issues of householding and parenting within the patriarchal family, reveal male and female characters to be representations of a masculine past and feminine present competing for dominance in the modern state. The author argues that in Jordan's and McGahern's works the modern state is described as stereotypically feminine, and that women's individual agency is directed to the deliberate blurring of gender difference upon which patriarchy depends. The first book-length study of the contemporary Anglo-Irish novel written from a women's studies and a post-colonial perspective, Feminine Nation will be of considerable interest to a large audience composed of Women's Studies, Irish Studies, and Post-Colonial studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lori Rogers is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761809511
• ISBN 13: 9780761809517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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• Personne responsable: non disponible