{"product_id":"9781399547468","title":"Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing : Uneasy Moderns by Naoise Murphy","description":"Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers - Dorothy Macardle, Kate O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane - this book unsettles the conventional narratives of modern Irish culture. Despite attempts to impose a linear narrative of progress, feel-good accounts are clearly inadequate to the realities of contemporary Ireland. Guided by a queer refusal to move on from bad feelings, Naoise Murphy disrupts common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Lingering with unease and discomfort in the work of mid-twentieth-century women writers and the spaces they occupied, this book pays close attention to inadmissible feelings of loss, anxiety, hauntedness and melancholia. By embracing discomfort, it moves towards a less idealising form of queer studies that is more responsive to the complexity of queer history, and offers a new story of Irish culture in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368799777141,"sku":"9781399547468","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399547468.jpg?v=1764607995","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781399547468","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}