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Anne Enright, an award-winning contemporary Irish writer, uses humor to approach serious topics such as social change and gender. Her first novel, The Wig My Father Wore, has been compared to the work of Gabriela Garcia Marquez for its magical surrealism. In this collection, academics working in Ireland, Belgium, and the US consider Enright's work in the context of contemporary and historical cultural change. Some themes discussed include temporal fluidity in Enright's work, female characters and Enright's 'female aesthetic,' the place of her short fiction within the Irish short story tradition, and post-modern elements in her work. The book includes an August 2009 interview with Enright and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Bracken teaches Irish literature and culture at Union College. Cahill is a research fellow in the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies at University College Dublin. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
