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