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Title: Heather Ingman, Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender (Book Review)
Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Release Date : January 22, 2008
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 343 KB

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Heather Ingman, Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007. 200 pages. No price given. In exploring 'twentieth-century fiction by Irish women' in the light of Kristevian theories, Heather Ingman's book has to face two challenges. One is, as Ingman herself acknowledges, to examine Irish 'women's fiction [...] on its own terms' and to delineate the 'struggles of particular women to reconcile their gender with their nation' (p.4). The other is--with regard to the use of Kristeva's theories--to maintain a healthy distance from both feminism's totalitarian and oppositional impulses, as Kristeva would see it, and the totalizing tendencies of national narratives. In doing so, Ingman intends to 'keep faith with Kristeva's emphasis on the particularity of the individual woman'(p.4).