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Article: Jennifer M. Jeffers: the Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power.(Book Review)
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2004
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Jennifer M. Jeffers The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. 208. $49.95
Literary scholar Jennifer M. Jeffers's book does not aim at an overall discussion of contemporary Irish fiction. As its title indicates, her approach is limited in terms of both corpus and subject matter. On the one hand, the analysis is confined to "Irish novels from the last decade (1989-1999) of the twentieth century--especially those written by emerging young writers" (9). On the other hand, Jeffers's focus is on fictional representations of gender, body, power, and the correlation of these thematic concerns.
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