%0 Book
%A Sarah O'Connor
%D 2011
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1662-9094
%@ 9783035301083
%T No Man’s Land
%B Irish Women and the Cultural Present
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0108-3
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051943
%X This book explores bilingualism and translation in contemporary women’s writing. The author argues that the ‘in-between’ or interstitial linguistic areas of bilingualism, translation and regionalism provide a language and imagery suitable for the expression of a specifically female consciousness. Throughout the book, she draws on the work of writers and critics in both Irish and English to construct a new method of reading Irish women’s writing in the latter half of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. These bold new readings demonstrate that the concept of interstitiality or the ‘in-between’ can enrich our understanding not only of Irish women’s literature in itself but also of the culture that produces this literature.
%K Irish women's writing, work of writers and critics in both Irish and English, Language and gender, bilingualism and translation in contemporary women's writing
%G English