User:KKohn00/Hood draft

This is a draft of edits I'd like to make to this page.

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Publication History

First published in the U.S. in 1995. https://lccn.loc.gov/95048437 and most recently published by HarperCollins in 2011. https://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780062117106

Plot summary

Reception

A New York Times Review in 1996 called it "charming" and said Donoghue "dip[s] into the ordinary with control and the occasional sustaining descriptive flashes of a born writer"

Awards and Honors

[| Stonewall Book Award 1997] (cite: Jeffers)

Major Themes

Young observes themes of being closeted and of reconstructing "home". She identifies several times when Pen mentions a literal wardrobe. Pen has lived in Cara's house for years, and comments on how many memories of their relationship are linked to spaces within the home. The home reflects many qualities of Pen and Cara's relationship: the fact that Pen has moved into Cara's father's house is an indicator of her importance to Cara, but the house is also a private space in which their closeted relationship is contained. Similarly, the fact that Pen is invited to stay in the home after Cara's death is a "reclamation" of the home as a potentially queer space, where it had previously been a symbol of heteronormative family. Relationships of lesbianism to the Catholic Church in Ireland (Kosta) - notes Pen works in a Catholic school and feels intimidated by the nuns but quietly challenges the church. Grief, naturally.

References:

Ukić Košta, V. (2014). Irish Women's Fiction of the Twentieth Century: The Importance of Being Catholic. ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives And Enquiries, 1151-63. doi:10.4312/elope.11.2.51-63

Young, E. (2013). No Place Like Home: Re-Writing 'Home' and Re-Locating Lesbianism in Emma Donoghue's Stir-Fry and Hood. Journal Of International Women's Studies, 14(4), 5-18.

Jeffers, J. M. (2010). The Reclamation of 'Injurious Terms' in Emma Donoghue's Fiction. In J. i. Wright (Ed.), A Companion to Irish Literature, Volume Two (pp. 425-435). Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell. see |Donoghue's website for awards and many more citations.

Lockerbie, C. (1996, Mar 24). Death in dublin. New York Times Book Review,, 1-12. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/24/books/death-in-dublin.html

O'Brien, George. (2012). The Irish novel, 1960-2010. Place of publication not identified: Cork University Press. - mostly a summary