Postcolonial and Gender Perspectives in Irish Studies Marisol Morales Ladron (Editor) netbiblo www.netbibto.com Institute universitario be estudios irlandeses Contents/Contenido Prologo: Postcolonialismo y Genero en los Estudios Irlandeses xvii PARTI Postcolonialism, Language and Gender 1. La teorizacion postcolonial de Irlanda Isabel Carrera Sudrez 3 2. The Irish Language and Issues on Postcolonialism: An Approach Asier Altuna Garcia de Salazar 21 PART II Poetry 3. Northern Ireland: The Poetry in Between Manuela Palacios Gonzalez 4. Acts of Union: El discurso del amor en el texto poetico de autoras irlandesas (1980-2005) Luz Mar Gonzalez Arias 45 65 PART III Fiction: Novels and Short Stories 5. Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson: Two Contemporary Northern Irish Writers and the Question of National Identity Esther Aliaga Rodrigo 6. Espacios femeninos en la novela de la Republica escrita por mujeres Maria Amor Barros del Rio 85 103 7. The Anti/postcolonial Trace in Some Stories of the Northern Irish Troubles Tamara Benito de la Iglesia 125 8. "The Seanchai": Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers from the Republic Margarita Estevez Sad 139 xv xvi CONTENTS/CONTENIDO PART IV Drama 9. La compafiia Charabanc (Marie Jones), Anne Devlin y Christina Reid: Estudio postcolonial del teatro norirlandes contemporaneo Maria del Mar Gonzalez Chacon 10. Infantilising Staging of Postcolonial Adulthood: A Study of Tom Murphy's A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant and Sebastian Barry's Boss Grady's Boys Rosana Herrero Martin 157 179 PARTV Cinema 11. Postcolonial Ireland on Screen Rosa Gonzalez Casademont 203