The Interstitial Status of Irish Gayness in Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship and The Master
This paper explores the liminal status of Irish gayness in the aftermath of its decriminalization in 1993. Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship (1999) tries to reconcile Irish Catholicism and traditional family with new models of Irishness. Declan, the protagonist of the novel, goes back home when...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Estudios Irlandeses |
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| Online Access: | http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Jose_M_Yebra_9.pdf |