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Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts that allow for an appraisal of her contribution to Irish women's literary tradition while attesting to the potency of writing against patriarchal conventions.

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Language is an extraordinary thing. It is more extraordinary than any nuclear weapon. - Edna O'Brien, in a 1995 interview with Salon.com ""Readers of Edna O'Brien's lyrical fiction can discover or revisit in Wild Colonial Girl the favorites - Kate and Baba, the mother and the Virgin Mary, Sister Imelda, ancient and modern Ireland, Breege and the Irish Revolutionary soldier - all in a search for self-hood amid sexual conflict, ambient guilt, and social paradoxes. Irish author Edna O'Brien has long merited this breakthrough scholarly study."" - Grace Eckley, editor of Newstead

Wild Colonial Girl Essays on Edna OBrien

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: 6/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299216344, 978-0299216344
      ISBN10: 0299216349
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts that allow for an appraisal of her contribution to Irish women's literary tradition while attesting to the potency of writing against patriarchal conventions.

      Trade Review
      Language is an extraordinary thing. It is more extraordinary than any nuclear weapon. - Edna O'Brien, in a 1995 interview with Salon.com ""Readers of Edna O'Brien's lyrical fiction can discover or revisit in Wild Colonial Girl the favorites - Kate and Baba, the mother and the Virgin Mary, Sister Imelda, ancient and modern Ireland, Breege and the Irish Revolutionary soldier - all in a search for self-hood amid sexual conflict, ambient guilt, and social paradoxes. Irish author Edna O'Brien has long merited this breakthrough scholarly study."" - Grace Eckley, editor of Newstead

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