English 8593
Studies in Post-Colonial Literatures:
Gender and Decolonization:
Twentieth-Century
Irish Women Writers
Spring 2013
Tuesdays, 3:30-6:20
Dr. Marsh
In this study of major Irish women writers of the twentieth century, we will read
Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September (1929)
Kate O’Brien’s Land of Spices (1941)
Edna O’Brien’s A Pagan Place (1970)
Eavan Boland’s An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987
Medbh McGuckian’s Selected Poems, 1978-1994
Julia O’Faolain’s No Country for Young Men (1980)
Jennifer Johnston’s Fool’s Sanctuary (1987)
Christina Reid’s Tea in a China Cup (1983)
and The Belle of the Belfast City (1989)
Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan (1996)
and By the Bog of Cats . . . (1998)
Anna Burns’s No Bones (2001)
In addition to the reading, the requirements for this course are
two exams,
one twenty-page research paper,
and presentations of critical works on Irish women’s writing and postcolonialism.