2024-03-29T00:13:18Zhttps://riubu.ubu.es/oai/requestoai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/68242022-09-01T00:05:20Zcom_10259_6158com_10259_5086com_10259_2604col_10259_6159
Irish Women’s Confessional Writing: Identity, Textuality and the Body
Barros del Río, María Amor
Terrazas Gallego, Melania
Emilie Pine
Sinéad Gleeson
Essayism
Confessional writing
Textuality
Irish writing
In recent times, the Irish literary arena has witnessed an
extraordinary flourishing of women’s life writing, with a special
interest in the examination of the female body. These works
explore the relations between identity, memoir, and narration
through the confessional, and reconceptualise the female body in
the Irish context. This article sets out to examine collections of
essays by two of these women writers, Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self
(2019) and Sinéad Gleeson’s Constellations: Reflections from Life
(2019), as innovative explorations of identity by applying Michael
Bamberg’s integrative approach of narrative analysis. It aims to
illuminate these examples of essayism as ‘interactional and bodily
performed’ narratives, in Bamberg’s words, and as testimonies of
transformation and adaptation of the body-mediated selves not
only in Ireland, but universally. Pine and Gleeson’s essays look
back on painful past experiences and explore the intersection of
identity, textuality, and the body.
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2022-08-31T10:09:25Z
2022-08
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
1448-4528
http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6824
10.1080/14484528.2022.2104117
1751-2964
eng
Life Writing. 2022
https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2022.2104117
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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