“SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK'N'ROLL” – NINETIES IN IRISH WOMEN’S FICTION Cover Image

„SEKS, DROGE I ROCK'N'ROLL“ – DEVEDESTE U FIKCIJI IRSKIH KNJIŽEVNICA
“SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK'N'ROLL” – NINETIES IN IRISH WOMEN’S FICTION

Author(s): Vesna Ukić Košta
Subject(s): Other Language Literature, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Theory of Literature, Globalization
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: nineties; Irish women authors; coming-of-age novel; comingout novel; humour; globalisation;

Summary/Abstract: This article sets out to examine Irish women's fiction of the nineties, the decade in which Ireland underwent a sea change in terms of political, economic, and social circumstances. The paper considers the ways in which these huge changes impact on women’s writing, their new subjects and to what extent their literature can still be termed “Irish”. The selected authors and texts are considered to vividly reflect the “Zeitgeist” of the nineties and demonstrate how their fictional concerns are now a long cry from the “great” subjects of Land, Nation and Catholicism that Irish literature was obsessed with throughout the 20th century. Coming-of-age novel which turns into a lesbian coming-out novel, ubiquitous humour and lack of reverence for traditional Irish culture, international setting, consumerism, the chaos of the post-modern world and globalisation feature prominently in the fiction of Irish women in the nineties.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 109-123
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Croatian