Women and exile in contemporary Irish fiction

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Women, Forms of Exile and Diasporic Identities

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

Chapter 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

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

Chapter 7 The Refusenik Returnee and Reluctant Emigrant in Colm Tóibín’s The South and Brooklyn

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

Chapter 9 Afterword