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Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction

Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction

Mooney, Jennifer

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032076852
ISBN13: 9781032076850
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 21 2022
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature addresses the role of young adult (YA) Irish literature in responding and contributing to some of the most controversial and contemporary issues in today's modern society: gender, and conflicting views of power, sexism and consent. This volume provides an original, innovative and necessary examination of how rape culture and the intersections between feminism and power have become increasingly relevant to Irish society in the years since Irish author Louise O'Neill's novels for young adults Only Ever Yours and Asking For It were published. In consideration of the socio-political context in Ireland and broader Western culture from which O'Neill's works were written, and taking into account a selection of Irish, American, Australian and British YA texts that address similar issues in different contexts, this book highlights the contradictions in O'Neill's works and illuminates their potential to function as a form of literary/social fundamentalism which often undermines, rather than promotes, equality.

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