Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction

1. Introduction
Ellen McWilliams

2. Women, Forms of Exile and Diasporic Identities
Ellen McWilliams

3. ‘Outside History’: Exile and Myths of the Irish Feminine in Julia O’Faolain’s No Country for Young Men and The Irish Signorina
Ellen McWilliams

4. Negotiating with the Motherland: Exile and the Irish Woman Writer in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy and The Light of Evening
Ellen McWilliams

5. Relative Visibility: Women, Exile and Censorship in John McGahern’s The Leavetaking and Amongst Women
Ellen McWilliams

6. Architectures of Exile and Self-Exile in William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey and The Story of Lucy Gault
Ellen McWilliams

7. The Refusenik Returnee and Reluctant Emigrant in Colm Tóibín’s The South and Brooklyn
Ellen McWilliams

8. ‘Ireland is Something That Often Happens Elsewhere’: Displaced and Disrupted Histories in Anne Enright’s What Are You Like? and The Gathering
Ellen McWilliams

9. Afterword
Ellen McWilliams

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Fiction