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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2007-03-15</publicationDate>
        <volume>2</volume>
    <issue>2</issue>
        <startPage>32</startPage>
    <endPage>43</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>2555</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ “Without contraries there is no progression”: The Paradoxical Heterogeneity of Identity in Sinead O‘Connor‘s Poetic Expression ]]></title>

    <authors>
     
      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Anna Dyc ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ University College, Sweden ]]></affiliationName>
        </affiliationsList>

        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ As a pop culture icon, the Irish musician Sinead O‘Connor has been exposed to harsh criticism, which, unfortunately, centres specifically on the superficial stratum of her artistic work. The shocking events which mark her career have diverted attention away from the sources of and ideas behind O‘Connor‘s songs, words and acts, overshadowing the fact that, among the abundance of contemporary art/showbusiness personalities, she remains one of the few who both create and interpret their own works. In fact, it is this situation and the consequent tension between the personal and the public which constitute the greatest source of inspiration for O‘Connor, thus making the resulting heterogeneity of identity both the background and the foreground topics of her lyrics. The intention behind the following article is to place the writings of the Irish “bald-headed banshee” (Buckley 1999: 704) in the postmodern context of fragmentation and confusion within the Self, but also to prove the genuineness which puts her beyond such straightforward categorizations.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Postmodernism</keyword>
              <keyword>The Other</keyword>
              <keyword>Fragmented Identity</keyword>
              <keyword>Pop Culture</keyword>
              <keyword>Poetry</keyword>
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