"Through a textual analysis of Troubles short fiction, a genre with the same marginal status as women within Troubles literary criticism, this book explores the particular emphasis that women writers have placed on gender and the everyday in their Troubles narratives, two areas which have frequently been relegated to the margins of the 'official story' of the conflict and the peace process. Their short stories integrate the domestic plot into the larger historical framework of political violence in Northern Ireland, ...
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"Through a textual analysis of Troubles short fiction, a genre with the same marginal status as women within Troubles literary criticism, this book explores the particular emphasis that women writers have placed on gender and the everyday in their Troubles narratives, two areas which have frequently been relegated to the margins of the 'official story' of the conflict and the peace process. Their short stories integrate the domestic plot into the larger historical framework of political violence in Northern Ireland, reconceptualizing and blurring the boundaries between the private and public realms and capturing the many ways in which the conflict is disruptive and destructive of the private space. Voices from the Margins shows how these women writers have rewritten the 'official story' with distinctive voices that have paid more attention to personal histories which highlight the conflict's impact on the individual than to a public History which has mainly centred on the binaries of pro- and anti-state nationalisms"--
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