Bodily Vulnerability and the Ethics of Representing Woman and Nation in the Poetry of Eavan Boland

This essay argues that for Eavan Boland, all genuinely life-enhancing social, cultural and political engagement depends on our capacity to respond to the exposed and vulnerable condition of the human body in time. In the Irish context, such alertness to the historically-situated suffering body has a...

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Main Author: Caitriona Clutterbuck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses 2021-05-01
Series:ABEI Journal
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Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/abei/article/view/197758