Women, forms of exile, and diasporic identities
Outside history: exile and myths of the Irish feminine in Julia O'Faolain's No country for young men and The Irish signorina
Negotiating with the motherland: exile and the Irish woman writer in Edna O'Brien's The country girls trilogy and The light of evening
Relative visibility: women, exile, and censorship in John Mcgahern's The leavetaking and amongst women
Architectures of exile and self-exile in William Trevor's Felicia's journey and The story of Lucy Gault
The refusenik returnee and reluctant emigrant in Colm Tóibøn's The South and Brooklyn
Ireland is something that often happens elsewhere: displaced and disrupted histories in Anne Enright's What are you like? and The gathering.
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Women and exile in contemporary Irish fiction by Ellen McWilliams. ISBN 9780230285767. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
