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A brief perspective on Maeve Brennan’s Rose Garden - The experience of Non-Belonging in the Protagonists in The Rose Garden’s Stories

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https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X86472

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Maeve Brennan, Female authorship, Female protagonism, Irish/American literature

Abstract

This article reviews the main subjects explored by Irish writer Maeve Brennan in The Rose Garden's short stories, considering the stories divided into thematic groups. She was attentive to the impressive number of Irish women arriving alone in the USA due to of the lack of jobs in Ireland. From the observation of outsider women, Brennan exposes the vices of New York society and gives voice to a group that usually did not play a leading role in the literature of the 1950s: immigrant, lonely and ugly women, and women living the last stage of adult life before becoming elderly.

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Sabrina Siqueira, Federal University of Santa Maria

Sabrina Siqueira has a degree in Social Communication – Journalism, from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and is a master's student in the Postgraduate Program, Literary Studies, at the same institution.

Rosani Ketzer Umbach, Federal University of Santa Maria

Full professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), editor of the journal Literature and Authoritarianism and 1C research productivity scholarship holder from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – ​​CNPq.

Roberta Flores Santurio, Federal University of Santa Maria

Substitute teacher of Anglophone Literatures in the English Literature course at UFSM, PhD student in the Postgraduate Program in Literature – Literary Studies at UFSM.

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FRAWLEY, O. (2006). Life of a Long-Winded Lady – Review of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker by Angela Bourke. The Irish Review. Cork. N. 34. Spring, 2006. Pp. 166-168.

MCWILLIAMS, E. (2014). “No Place is Home – It is as it should be”: Exile in the writing of Maeve Brennan. Éire – Ireland. V. 49. Fall-Winter. pp. 95-111.

MURPHY, M. The Irish Servant Girl in Literature. Writing Ulster: A Cultural Correspondence, 1998. p. 133-147. Acesso em JSTOR em: 3 ago. 2022

PALKO, A. L. Out of home in the kitchen: Maeve Brennan’s Herbert’s Retreat Stories. New Hibernia Review. Vol. 11, n. 4 (Winter, 2007). Pp. 73-91. Acesso: JSTOR, jan. 2020.

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Siqueira, S., Umbach, R. K., & Santurio, R. F. (2024). A brief perspective on Maeve Brennan’s Rose Garden - The experience of Non-Belonging in the Protagonists in The Rose Garden’s Stories. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (43), e86472. https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X86472

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No. 43 (2024): Literatura e Autoritarismo: Publicação contínua

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