Description
This study re-evaluates Bolands work in the dual light of two important ideologies within modern Irish writing: feminism and postcolonialism. Its main objective is to analyze Bolands evolution as an Irish woman poet in her attempt to overcome marginalization as a postcolonial gendered subject. By bringing together postcolonial and feminist theorizations of identity, this study demonstrates how Boland gradually undermines the (presumably authentic) representations of woman and nation she has inherited. By describing Irishness and womanhood in terms of fluidity and hybridity, Bolands poetry exposes the constructedness of identity itself and allows the speaker to find a place freed from authoritative ideologies. In so doing, Boland manages to present a background where new decolonizing identities can emerge. In other words, it is here where she finds her way out as an outsider within an outsiders culture.
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