Publication: Awakening and development of the Irish female self through mother-daughter relationships in Edna O´Brien´s “The Country Girls Trilogy”
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2020-06
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Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España). Facultad de Filología. Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
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This final project is an approach to Edna O´Brien´s The Country Girls Trilogy through a cornerstone in her fiction: motherhood and the mother-daughter dyad. All along this thesis we will consider the different sways exerted on those country girls from the conservative Ireland in the 1950´s-1960´s, examining how Irish women tackled their own personal growth and the construction of a distinctive identity. With a detailed picture of Ireland´s historical context, the conservative patriarchal post-independence culture and the religious society founded on Catholic moral codes, we aim to demonstrate how our origins and surrounding environment leave a lasting mark on individuals. Through a close examination of the Trilogy female characters´ selves we will attempt to decode O´Brien´s great influence on forthcoming changes in Irish society.
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Edna O´Brien, 1950s Ireland´s context, female identity, motherhood institution, mother-daughter relationship
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Facultad de Filología
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Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas