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A JAIL OR A REFUGE: CATHOLIC CONVENT EDUCATION IN KATE O’BRIEN’S THE LAND OF SPICES AND EDNA O’BRIEN’S THE COUNTRY GIRLS
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This article sets out to explore how the two Irish authors, Kate O’Brien
(1897-1974) and Edna O’Brien (b. 1930), convey Catholic convent education
in their novels, The Land of Spices (1941) and The Country Girls
(1960) respectively. Drawing on Louis Althusser’s theory of the „ideological
state apparatuses” which subtly but continually control the everyday
lives of individuals, this paper argues that in the chosen texts Catholicism
and Catholic convent education largely function as an ideological
and repressive social force in twentieth-century Ireland. Kate O’Brien’s
representation of convent life is, however, in many ways much more subtle
than Edna O’Brien’s unsympathetic and down-to-earth portrayal of
the education at the hands of nuns. What is common to both authors
and what situates these two novels in the same ideological and cultural
context is that they use the representation of this particular educational
apparatus to the same end, in order to offer strong critics Irish Catholicism
of their time.
Ključne riječi
convent education; Catholicism; ideology; repression; Althusser; state apparatuses
Hrčak ID:
227768
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Datum izdavanja:
11.12.2013.
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