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The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century

Gender, Bodies and Power

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  • © 2002

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  1. Jennifer M. Jeffers
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction Irish Culture in a State of Becoming

    • Jennifer M. Jeffers
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Politics of Gender, Bodies, and Power

    • Jennifer M. Jeffers
    Pages 9-48

  4. Irish Identity

    • Jennifer M. Jeffers
    Pages 49-77

  5. Bodies over the Boundary

    • Jennifer M. Jeffers
    Pages 79-119

  6. Immeasurable Distance

    • Jennifer M. Jeffers
    Pages 121-140

  7. Discourse and the Body

    • Jennifer M. Jeffers
    Pages 141-175

  8. Afterword

    • Jennifer M. Jeffers
    Pages 177-179

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 181-207
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The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity-the perennial Irish problem-can be gauged at the basic level of sexual and gender identity in contrast to or in alliance with political, social, religious or cultural norms. All mechanisms that have gone into controlling the body-gender regulation, violence, desire, religious taboos-can all be reinterpreted through the body in motion.

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'...an efficient instrument for its combination of historical, theoretical, and textual analysis.' - Choice

'The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century is an interesting read for students of Irish literary studies, in that it explores the construction of gender and sexuality in novels written in Ireland in the last twelve years.' - Nessa Cronin, Irish Studies Review

About the author

JENNIFER M. JEFFERS is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Cleveland State University. She has edited a collection of critical essays on Samuel Beckett's drama, Samuel Beckett: A Casebook, and co-edited with H. Gene Blocker an aesthetics and critical theory reader, Contextualizing Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard). She has another book in press Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative.

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