Hunger Strikes Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women's Writing

这个项目将是第一个全面研究21世纪爱尔兰女性写作中的自我饥饿。它认为，在爱尔兰女性写作中有一种对厌食症的强迫性描述，这是一种亚类型，目前正享受着前所未有的商业成功和评论界的赞誉，莎莉·鲁尼小说的巨大成功就是一个例证。支撑这一繁荣的是女权主义和妇女权利在后凯尔特之虎时期（2008-）的可见度的提高。我的研究将分析厌食症的双重含义，即对爱尔兰天主教和民族主义所强化的父权教义的反叛和遵从。

This project will be the first full-length study of self-starvation in twenty-first century writing by Irish women. It argues that there is an obsessive depiction of anorexia in Irish women's writing, a subgenre currently enjoying unprecedented commercial success and critical acclaim, exemplified by the runaway success of Sally Rooney's novels. Underpinning this boom is the increase in visibility of feminism and women's rights in the post-Celtic Tiger period (2008-). My research will analyse the dual meanings of anorexia as both a rebellion against and conformity to patriarchal doctrines reinforced by Catholicism and nationalism in Ireland.