Jeanette Roberts Shumaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5132142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanette Roberts Shumaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanette Roberts |
| FAMILY NAME | Shumaker |
| SIGNATURE | SHUMAKER J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Class wars between women in Maeve Brennan’s ‘The Anachronism’
Maeve Brennan’s mid-twentieth century stories set in a wealthy village in New York are often read as critiques of prejudice against Irish-American maids. However, in ‘The Anachronism’ (1954), Maeve Brennan suggests that class, even more than nationality, is central to women’s identity in the United States during the 1950s. In this story, Brennan revises stereotypes of class and nationality regarding Irish and English immigrants. Betty, a maid fro…
Sado-Masochism in Clare Boylan’s Home Rule and Holy Pictures
A well-known Dublin journalist who died in 2006, Clare Boylan published several novels and short story collections, including a completion of Charlotte Bronte’s unfinished novel Emma Brown in 2003. ((I offer thanks to professor Juan Carlos Ramirez Pimienta of San Diego State University, Imperial Valley for translating the abstract of my article into Spanish.)) Boylan’s first novel, Holy Pictures
Accepting the Grotesque Body
'Fair and foul are near of kin, And fair needs foul,' I cried. W. B. Yeats, "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" For the female protagonists of Boylan's Black Baby (1988), and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing (1999), maturation entails accepting the grotesqueness of their bodies. The female body erupts through excess weight and unruly sexual desires in
Elizabeth Bowen
Borders, binaries, and heritage in a contemporary Irish short story
Borders, binaries, and heritage in a contemporary Irish short story
Elizabeth Bowen
Accepting the Grotesque Body
'Fair and foul are near of kin, And fair needs foul,' I cried. W. B. Yeats, "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" For the female protagonists of Boylan's Black Baby (1988), and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing (1999), maturation entails accepting the grotesqueness of their bodies. The female body erupts through excess weight and unruly sexual desires in
Sado-Masochism in Clare Boylan’s Home Rule and Holy Pictures
A well-known Dublin journalist who died in 2006, Clare Boylan published several novels and short story collections, including a completion of Charlotte Bronte’s unfinished novel Emma Brown in 2003. ((I offer thanks to professor Juan Carlos Ramirez Pimienta of San Diego State University, Imperial Valley for translating the abstract of my article into Spanish.)) Boylan’s first novel, Holy Pictures
Class wars between women in Maeve Brennan’s ‘The Anachronism’
Maeve Brennan’s mid-twentieth century stories set in a wealthy village in New York are often read as critiques of prejudice against Irish-American maids. However, in ‘The Anachronism’ (1954), Maeve Brennan suggests that class, even more than nationality, is central to women’s identity in the United States during the 1950s. In this story, Brennan revises stereotypes of class and nationality regarding Irish and English immigrants. Betty, a maid fro…
Irish and British Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Irish (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)