Changing Ireland Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction [Hardcover]

During the past twenty-five years, Ireland has seen an explosion of women's fiction - hundreds of published works that reimagine the inherited literary traditions and the social contexts of women's lives. Changing Ireland examines women's use of historical fiction, exile literature, Northern war narratives, speculative fiction, and classic 'realism', and looks at the local Irish forms of international women's genres like the romance novel and feminist fiction.Introduction Authorship, the Forbidden Country Women Writing Exile 'Returning from the Ghost Place': Recomposing History 'The War that has gone into us': Troubles from the North Travelling Back Home: The Blockbusters Patricia Scanlan and Maeve Binchy Feminist Fiction Notes Index

'...St Peter has produced a scholarly and useful study...this book will provide a spring-board for students who want to pursue material in this field, a factor which does credit to its author's accessible and generous critical style.' - Eve Patten, Irish Times

Christine St. Peter is Associate Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.