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Article: Heather Ingman, Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender.(Book review)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
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- March 22, 2008
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Heather Ingman, Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007. 200 pages. No price given.
In exploring 'twentieth-century fiction by Irish women' in the light of Kristevian theories, Heather Ingman's book has to face two challenges. One is, as Ingman herself acknowledges, to examine Irish 'women's fiction [...] on its own terms' and to delineate the 'struggles of particular women to reconcile their gender with their nation' (p.4). The other is--with regard to the use of Kristeva's theories--to maintain a healthy distance from both feminism's totalitarian and oppositional impulses, as Kristeva would see it, and the ...