Seeds That Thin and Split: Motherhood, Femininity, and Rebellion in Roddy Doyle’s 'A Star Called Henry' and Lia Mills’ 'Fallen'
Focusing on representations of female rebellion in Roddy Doyle’s A Star Called Henry and Lia Mills’ Fallen, this article will consider the ways in which both novels dismantle and rearticulate the dominant symbolic trope of Irish womanhood in cultural nationalism, the Mother Ireland figure. Strategie...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies
2018-10-01
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Series: | Review of Irish Studies in Europe |
Online Access: | http://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/1894/1504 |