Description
This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American author Maeve Brennan. Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most important of women’s voices in twentieth-century Irish fiction, having undergone a significant reclamation and reappraisal in the thirty years since her death. Single and childfree, Brennan eschewed the securities of family and home, experiencing an ‘otherness’ that she shared with her fellow New Yorkers, many of them left hanging on, she wrote, to a city half-capsized––“most of them still able to laugh as they cling to the island that is their life’s predicament”. It is a suitably ambiguous expression for a writer who cultivated an interstitial existence, whose stories inhere within a dream cycle of reiterative pasts, and whose works augment and elevate the canon of radical Irish fiction.
Book Information
ISBN 9781032556123
Author Edward O’Rourke
Format Hardback
Page Count 262
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
