The peasant woman at the paradigm shift in contemporary Irish poetry
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The Irish writer Eavan Boland published, in 1989, the essay A Kind of Scar, in which she highlights the relevance of the peasant woman to the shift of poetic paradigm that is taking place in Ireland around this decade. Both the essay and the poem that opens it as a sort of epigraph, “The Achill Woman”, constitute a good example of the anti-pastoral genre and expose the exclusion of the real experience of both the peasant woman and the woman poet from national history and literary tradition. The present article recuperates, in a reaction against its neglect in recent criticism, the importance of the peasant woman for Eavan Boland’s argumentation in this essay.
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