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T1 Irish Women’s Confessional Writing: Identity, Textuality and the Body
A1 Barros del Río, María Amor
A1 Terrazas Gallego, Melania
K1 Emilie Pine
K1 Sinéad Gleeson
K1 Essayism
K1 Confessional writing
K1 Textuality
K1 Irish writing
K1 Literatura irlandesa
K1 Irish literature
AB In recent times, the Irish literary arena has witnessed anextraordinary flourishing of women’s life writing, with a specialinterest in the examination of the female body. These worksexplore the relations between identity, memoir, and narrationthrough the confessional, and reconceptualise the female body inthe Irish context. This article sets out to examine collections ofessays 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 MichaelBamberg’s integrative approach of narrative analysis. It aims toilluminate these examples of essayism as ‘interactional and bodilyperformed’ narratives, in Bamberg’s words, and as testimonies oftransformation and adaptation of the body-mediated selves notonly in Ireland, but universally. Pine and Gleeson’s essays lookback on painful past experiences and explore the intersection ofidentity, textuality, and the body.
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
SN 1448-4528
YR 2022
FD 2022-08
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6824
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6824
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 24-nov-2024