Escritoras irlandesas e nación: crónica dun desencontro

Abstract

Before the symbolic feminisation of the nation and the nationalisationof women carried out by certain nationalistic discourses, Irishwomen poets report institutions and ideologies which do not warranttheir rights and only understand the figure of woman as a mother ofpatriots. From the suffrage movement at the beginning of the 20thcentury until the present day, there has been in Ireland a clash ofinterests between women and discourses on the nation based on eitherideological control exerted by the Catholic church or on the fantasyof Celtism or on the monolithic understanding of the nationalidentity. Irish women poets condemn the patriarchal and nationalisticposition of national literature and demand other configurations ofheterogeneous and hybrid identities.