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Of Mermaids and Others - An Introduction to the Poetry of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (Hardcover, New edition)
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Of Mermaids and Others - An Introduction to the Poetry of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Modern Poetry, 8
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This volume is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish
writer Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Writing poetry exclusively in Irish but
allowing and overseeing translations of her work into several
languages, primarily English, Ni Dhomhnaill is the first
Irish-language poet to gain an international following. She is also
a pioneer in fostering a renewed relationship between the two
languages of Ireland's literary traditions. Ni Dhomhnaill is
unflinching in her interventions into problematic social,
linguistic and even theoretical arenas, and is well known for her
brutal parodies, ribald sexual scenarios and persistent debunking
and revising of religious, political and mythological imagery. Her
primary thematic concerns demonstrate her dedication to critiquing
and ultimately changing dominant discourses so that they account
for the presence and contributions of women writers. This volume
explores the fraught issues of translating and contextualizing Ni
Dhomhnaill's oeuvre, her use and revisions of Irish myth, folklore
and political and religious iconography, her re-imagining of the
mother in culture and religious ideology, and the devices of death,
silence and psychoanalytic discourse in her mermaid cycle and other
poems. The book hails Ni Dhomhnaill, who has not hitherto received
a great deal of critical attention in English, as a major figure in
world literature.
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