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Article: Patricia Boyle Haberstroh and Christine St. Peter (editors), Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts.(Book review)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
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- September 22, 2007
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Patricia Boyle Haberstroh and Christine St. Peter (editors), Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts. Cork: Cork University Press, 2007. vii +181 pages. EUR 39.00.
This collection, with its at once playful and suggestive reference to the fierce debates engendered by the publication of the first three volumes of The Field Day Anthology in 1991, and the subsequent publication of Volumes IV and V in 2002, enters the fray with a selection of essays that addresses some issues surrounding the anthology and, more broadly, ideas of canonicity, nationalism, gender, and Irish identity. This question of identity had been central to the earlier volumes, but the ...