TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarah O'Connor
PY  - 2011
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9094
SN  - 9783035301083
TI  - No Man’s Land
T2  - Irish Women and the Cultural Present
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0108-3
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051943
N2  - 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.
KW  - 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
LA  - English
ER  -