The Famine of the 90s: Female Starvation and Religious Thought in Leanne O'Sullivan's

The Famine of the 90s: Female Starvation and Religious Thought in Leanne O'Sullivan's "Waiting for My Clothes"

dc.contributor.author	González Arias, Luz Mar
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-02T08:06:38Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-02T08:06:38Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.identifier.citation	Estudios irlandeses (Journal of Irish Studies) p. 50-57 (2005)
dc.identifier.issn	1699-311X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10651/25965
dc.description.abstract	This paper offers a critical analysis of Leanne O'Sullivan's debut collection Waiting for My Clothes, in particular focusing on its recurrent themes of anorexia and bulimia. Leanne O'Sullivan is part of a new generation of Irish poets, located at the crossroads of tradition and modernity. In its critique of the so-called beauty myth, Waiting for My Clothes takes the reader to a New Ireland where the anxiety for national definitions has lost part of its force in favour of the progressive internalisation of Irish life. However, this paper will concentrate on O'Sullivan's examination of the religious dimension of anorexic patterns, an aspect that presents her as heiress of the influence exerted by Catholicism in the conceptualisations of femininity in Ireland.
dc.format.extent	p. 50-57
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
dc.relation.ispartof	Estudios irlandeses = Journal of Irish Studies
dc.rights	© Luz Mar González Arias
dc.title	The Famine of the 90s: Female Starvation and Religious Thought in Leanne O'Sullivan's "Waiting for My Clothes"	eng
dc.type	journal article
dc.rights.accessRights	open access