Commitment and Poetic Justice: Irish Republican Women’s Prison Writing

This article focuses on prose and poetry produced by Irish republican women prisoners either during their time in prison or after their release, and aims to investigate the ways in which they, on the one hand, represent acts of gendered violence and torture at the hands of prison guards and, on the...

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Published in:	Commonwealth (Rodez, France) France), 2015-09, Vol.38 (1), p.57-66
Main Author:	McCann, Fiona
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 Cahn, Naomi Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) English Literature Feminism Humanities and Social Sciences Irish literature Irish Women Writers Northern Ireland Poetry political prison Prison Writings Prisoners' writings, English Prose Prose poems republicanism Twentieth Century Women prisoners women writers
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Summary:	This article focuses on prose and poetry produced by Irish republican women prisoners either during their time in prison or after their release, and aims to investigate the ways in which they, on the one hand, represent acts of gendered violence and torture at the hands of prison guards and, on the other, interrogate their solidarity as a group of women. It will be suggested, through close analysis of the tropes deployed, that their commitment, as it is expressed in this writing, moves beyond militant republicanism to embrace a feminist dimension.
ISSN:	2270-0633 0395-6989 2534-6695