Displacing the Nation: Performance, Style and Sex in Eimear McBride’s <em>The Lesser Bohemians</em>

Eimear McBride’s second novel revisits many of the stylistic practices and conceptual themes which made A Girl is a Half-formed Thing such an important intervention within post-Tiger Irish cultural politics. By setting The Lesser Bohemians in London during the 1990s, however, McBride displaces both...

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Main Author: Gerry Smyth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2019-06-01
Series:Studi Irlandesi : a Journal of Irish Studies
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7353