چکیده

There is a niche in contemporary Irish literature which portrays twentieth century diasporic Irish identity, in particular, that of the female. This literature points to the heterogeneous and contradictory constitution of the image of the Irish woman migrant in modern Irish narratives, an image which oscillates between the poles of conservativism and docility, on the one hand, and freedom and independence, on the other. This article explores the dualistic conflict in the category of the Irish woman migrant in Colm Tóibín s novel, Brooklyn (2009), by focusing on female characters, in specific the figure of Eilis, a young woman from a small town in Ireland who immigrates to the U.S. in hope of a better future. Using Foucault s notion of disciplinary spaces, it is demonstrated that Tóibín confines women s immigrant experience to limited domains which reinforce traditional feminine identity. Further, it is argued that Tóibín s narrative is disproportionately slanted towards a pessimistic depiction of emigration, which condemns his female characters to an inevitable return to their normative social positions, depriving them of any tangible emancipatory possibility.

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Modern Irish literature, Irish Female Migrant Identity, Immigration, Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn, Michel Foucault, Disciplinary Society

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