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T1 Power, Gender and the Nation: Negotiations of Belonging in Evelyn Conlon’s Short Story “Park-Going Days”
A1 Barros del Río, María Amor
K1 Ireland
K1 Motherhood
K1 Intersectionality
K1 Exclusion
K1 Belonging
K1 Irlanda
K1 maternidad
K1 interseccionalidad
K1 exclusión
K1 pertenencia
K1 Literatura irlandesa
K1 Irish literature
AB In the central decades of the 20th century, the feminine icons of “Mother Church” and“Mother Ireland” were set as conduct models to follow by Irish women. Simultaneously, legal, moraland economic forces collaborated in limiting the scope of their agency. In order to elicit where womensituated and how female expressions of belonging and not belonging took shape, this article usesintersectionality to look into the short story “Park-Going Days” authored by women’s rights activistand writer Evelyn Conlon. The plot displays the ambivalent feelings of the newcomer, a childlessmarried woman, towards the other women in the community and her difficulties fitting in. At the sametime, this story provides the reader with the unspoken personal experiences of these women in relationto marriage, work and motherhood. Thus, the analysis will show how this situation is constructed andunderstood by the author. Besides, the use of intersectionality will allow a multi-level analysis tounveil the interdependence of structures, social categories and representations that result in sociallyconstructed forms of differentiation and exclusion for (some) women, and the consequent forms ofresistance and consent. Finally, new paths for literary analysis are suggested within the frame ofintersectionality.
PB Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
SN 1699-311X
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4441
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4441
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 20-abr-2024