The Woman & the Animal Trope. A critical selection of contemporary Irish poetry

Authors

  • Margarita Estévez-Saá Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  • Manuela Palacios-González Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  • Noemí Pereira-Ares Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9788

Abstract

In these times of growing ecological awareness, one feels impelled to reflect upon the ways in which contemporary Irish poetry is conceiving and shaping the relationship between human and non-human animal life. Furthermore, social debates about animals’ rights run parallel to inquiries into interconnected forms of oppression and exploitation, as is the case with the discrimination of women around the world (Velasco Sesma 2017). Feminist thought has focused on two ‒ not necessarily incompatible ‒, strategies: one resulting from the urgency to denounce the patriarchal animalization of women ‒ their bodies and their social roles ‒ (Adams 1990), and the other aiming to question anthropocentric, speciesist ideologies that privilege human interests over those of animals (Braidotti 2017).

Author Biographies

Manuela Palacios-González, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Manuela Palacios-González is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She has directed five research projects on contemporary Irish and Galician literature that have been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, and has edited and co-edited several books in relation to this topic: Pluriversos (2003), Palabras extremas (2008), Writing Bonds (2009), Creation, Publishing and Criticism (2010), To the Winds Our Sails (2010), Forked Tongues (2012), Six Galician Poets (2016), Migrant Shores (2017) and Ανθολογία Νέων Γαλικιανών Ποιητών – Antoloxía De Poesía Galega Nova (2019). Her other publications include translations of European and Arabic poetry and fiction, a monograph on Virginia Woolf’s pictorial imagery, Shakespeare’s Richard III, and articles on ecocriticism.

Noemí Pereira-Ares, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Noemí Pereira-Ares works in the Department of English, at the University of A Coruña. She graduated from the University of A Coruña in 2009 and received an MA in English Studies (2010) and a PhD in English Literature (2015) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her research interests include migrant literature(s) in English, postcolonial, diaspora and transcultural studies, and the sociological study of dress in literature. Her work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and she has recently published a monograph entitled Fashion, Dress and Identity in the Narratives of the South Asian Diaspora: From the Eighteenth Century to Monica Ali (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

References

Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat. New York: Continuum, 1990.

Braidotti, Rosi. “Four Theses on Posthuman Feminism”. Anthropocene Feminism. Ed. Richard Grusin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. 21-48.

Velasco Sesma, Angélica. La ética animal. ¿Una cuestión feminista? Madrid: Cátedra, 2017.

Wells, Grace. E-mail message in private correspondence with Manuela Palacios. 15/06/2020.

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Published

2020-10-31

How to Cite

Estévez-Saá, M., Manuela Palacios-González, & Noemí Pereira-Ares. (2020). The Woman & the Animal Trope. A critical selection of contemporary Irish poetry. Estudios Irlandeses, 15(2), 129–146. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9788

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2020): Issue 15.2. Eco-Fictions, The Animal Trope and Irish Studies - 2020

Section

Writers' Corner

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