Accepting the Grotesque Body: Bildungs by Clare Boylan and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
In Clare Boylan’s fantasy novel Black Baby (1988) and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s realistic novel The Dancers Dancing (1999), female protagonists fear those who symbolize the grotesqueness of their own overweight bodies; hence, these heroines reject marginalized women, either black or retarded, and Irish...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
2006-03-01
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| Series: | Estudios Irlandeses |
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| Online Access: | http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/JeanetteRShumaker.pdf |