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Titre : | Secrecy, Alterity, and Defiant Femininity in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's The Boys of Bluehill (2019) |
Auteurs : | Pilar VILLAR ARGAIZ, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 49 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2019) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 370-389 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Résumé : | This article traces the connections between defiant femininity, indeterminacy, and the theme of secrecy in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's collection "The Boys of Bluehill" (2015). In particular, it analyses the secret as the main poetic device used by Ní Chuilleanáin to articulate the gaps and absences within totalitarian, essentialized discourses such as History. In her poetry, secrecy – manifested as silence, uncertainty, marginality and alterity – emerges as the space of peripheral voices and experiences, buried and silenced by official accounts of Ireland's past. As the unavowable manifestation of the Other, the secret also stands as the perfect space for a defiant form of femininity which emerges as a disrupting force, endlessly open to the possibility of change. In Ní Chuilleanáin's work, the secret is never fully disclosed; her poems are thus perpetually open to different interpretations, pointing towards an uncertain future of indeterminate potentiality for her female characters. As this article shows, this uncertainty at the heart of Ní Chuilleanáin's work can be read subversively as an enabling force. |
Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
Lieu de publication : | Edimbourg |
Fonds : | Médiathèque |