RT Journal Article
T1 Female Iconography and Subjectivity in Eavan Boland’s In Her Own Image
A1 Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María
K1 Eavan Boland
K1 In Her Own Image
K1 Ireland
K1 Women’s poetry
K1 Female iconicity
K1 Subjectivity
AB In 1980 the Irish poet Eavan Boland published In Her Own Image a volume of poetry which stands as a landmark in her career as a writer for its subversive potential to revise creational myths that have contributed to the traditional construction of female subjectivity. The aim of this paper is to discuss Boland’s textual strategies in In Her Own Image and see how she subverts the traditional female iconography that constrains the female psyche and disempowers women. Rather than a set of ornamental female figures, Boland’s volume produces more authentic representations of women that move away from man’s own image and from his icons, which have often been taken as “natural” within the construction of female subjectivity. Resistance to such genderings provides, as the volume illustrates, emancipatory possibilities for the woman writer who regains control over her own body image within the very terms of a culture and of a particular poetic tradition.
PB Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
SN 0210-6124
YR 2006
FD 2006-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32028
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32028
LA eng
NO Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez. Female Iconography and Subjectivity in Eavan Boland's In Her Own Image. Atlantis 28.1: 89-100
NO The present paper appears inscribed within the framework of a research project financed bythe Spanish Ministry of Education, entitled “Poesía y género: Poetas irlandesas y gallegascontemporáneas (1980-2004)” (HUM2005-04897/FILO)
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026