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Becoming a Legend: Edna O’Brien and Her Life-Long Journey
- Source :
- American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, Vol 35, Iss 1, Pp 133-151 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020.
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Abstract
- The publication of Germaine Greer’s The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause presents a manifesto for women’s emancipation and their imminent embarkment on the avenue of freedom towards the liberation from the male gaze. In a similar vein, Edna O’Brien, a pioneer of the literary treatment of female agency and sexuality in the Irish literary canon, moves past the age when women enjoy visibility. Age liberates O’Brien from her entrapment in the public persona and her anxious relationship with the public opinion. It has the power to enhance the possibility of women’s difference. Nowadays, the commitment to women’s cause, the inherent element of O’Brien’s narratives, continues to mark out the uncompromising discourse of transgression of the standard as well as her vigilant condemnation of violence against women. In time, O’Brien has become both a foremother author and a legend. She has embraced her unrepressed femininity and the personification of a female sage that Irish women writers have long lacked and may thus represent a role model for authors who wish to transgress the discriminatory standards and defend the female voice.
- Subjects :
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Cultural Studies
History
Sociology and Political Science
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fiction
Art history
canon
private
violence
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030502 gerontology
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030214 geriatrics
public
Legend
Computer Science Applications
ageing
Anthropology
discourse
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
women
0305 other medical science
edna o’brien
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Details
- ISSN :
- 1841964X
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American, British and Canadian Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b83586c35deb1de81f5554a20f37f9b7
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2020-0020