Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discourses of exile in the Irish literary tradition and examines how they engage with the complex history of Irish emigration.

About the Author
Ellen McWilliams is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (2009) and has received a number of awards for research, including an Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship (2011) and a Fulbright Scholar Award (2012).

Reviews

"As her study, Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction, amply shows, women are no longer marginal characters but protagonists who provide rich commentary on emigration-related social concerns including reproductive rights, censorship, religious and class identities, whiteness, and belonging. ... The book is engagingly written and constitutes a compelling and important contribution to contemporary Irish literary criticism." (Katrin Urschel, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 39 (2), 2016)

Book Information
ISBN 9780230285767
Author Ellen McWilliams
Format Hardback
Page Count 243
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan