Austerity and Irish women's writing and culture, 1980-2020 / edited by Deirdre Flynn and Ciara L. Murphy.

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TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9781000588354
9781000588330
1000588335
9781003207474
1003207472
1000588351

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820.9/3553

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Chapter One: Irish Women's Writing and Culture Under the Shadow of AusterityDeirdre Flynn and Ciara L. MurphySection One: Austerity, Feminism, and ConflictChapter Two: Two Opposing Narratives?: The Field Day and LIP PamphletsLaura LoftusChapter Three: Austerity, Conflict, and Second-Wave Feminism in the North of Ireland.Ciara L. MurphyChapter Four: #WakeUpIrishPoetry: Austerity and Activism in Contemporary Irish Poetry -- A Personal ReflectionKathy D'ArcySection Two: Arts and AusterityChapter Five: Kermit, Cows, and Beheaded Chickens: Women's Comedy Monologues After the TigerClare KeoghChapter Six: Balancing Acts: From Survival to Sustainability in Contemporary Irish Theatre and PerformanceMiriam Haughton and Maria TivnanSection Three: Race and AusterityChapter Seven: Intersectionality in Contemporary Melodrama: Normal People (McDonald/Abrahamson, 2020) and Kissing Candice (McArdle, 2018)Zélie AsavaChapter Eight: Austerity and the Precarity of Whiteness: Polish Characters in Stacey Gregg's Shibboleth (2015) and Rosemary Jenkinson's Here Comes the Night (2016)Justine NakaseChapter Nine: Black Irish CultureSandrine Uwase NdahiroSection Four: Spaces of AusterityChapter Ten: Irish Realism, Affect, and Claire Keegan's Austere Rural IrelandYen-Chi WuChapter Eleven: Celtic Tiger Saga Fiction: Patricia Scanlan's City Girls and Marian Keyes' Walsh FamilyMargaret O'NeillChapter Twelve: 'Just the way it is': portraits of austerity in short fiction by women from the North of IrelandOrlaith DarlingChapter Thirteen: Motherhood, Referendums and Austerity in contemporary Irish Women's WritingDeirdre Flynn

Summary: Austerity and Irish Women's Writing and Culture, 1980-2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women's writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies considers how economic policies impacted on and are represented in Irish women's writing during critical junctures in recent Irish history. Through an investigation of cultural production north and south of the border, this collection analyses women's writing using a multimedium approach through four distinct lenses: austerity, feminism, and conflict; arts and austerity; race and austerity; and spaces of austerity. This collection asks two questions: what sort of cultural output does austerity produce? And if the effects of austerity are gendered, then what are the gender-specific responses to financial insecurity, both national and domestic? By investigating how austerity is treated in women's writing and culture from 1980 to 2020, this collection provides a much-needed analysis of the gendered experience of economic crisis and specifically of Ireland's consistent relationship with cycles of boom and bust. Thirteen chapters, which focus on fiction, drama, poetry, women's life writing, and women's cultural contributions, examine these questions. This volume takes the reader on a journey across decades and forms as a means of interrogating the growth of the economic divide between the rich and the poor since the 1980s through the voices of Irish women.

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Austerity and Irish Women's Writing and Culture, 1980-2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women's writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies considers how economic policies impacted on and are represented in Irish women's writing during critical junctures in recent Irish history. Through an investigation of cultural production north and south of the border, this collection analyses women's writing using a multimedium approach through four distinct lenses: austerity, feminism, and conflict; arts and austerity; race and austerity; and spaces of austerity. This collection asks two questions: what sort of cultural output does austerity produce? And if the effects of austerity are gendered, then what are the gender-specific responses to financial insecurity, both national and domestic? By investigating how austerity is treated in women's writing and culture from 1980 to 2020, this collection provides a much-needed analysis of the gendered experience of economic crisis and specifically of Ireland's consistent relationship with cycles of boom and bust. Thirteen chapters, which focus on fiction, drama, poetry, women's life writing, and women's cultural contributions, examine these questions. This volume takes the reader on a journey across decades and forms as a means of interrogating the growth of the economic divide between the rich and the poor since the 1980s through the voices of Irish women.

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