Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA.

"For readers and teachers less familiar with the politics and history of Northern Ireland, it offers context and overview from partition to the start of the Troubles, the Peace process, and the continuing fractures and tensions within Northern Irish communities. ... it offers in-depth studies of three current Northern Irish women writers who have found new ways to articulate the challenges of representation that Heaney recognized." (Michele Holmgren, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 47 (1-2), January-April, 2016)

• Introduction 1. "Au contraire": The Spectral Borderlands of Northern Irish Literature 2. Self-Contradiction in a Small Place: Anne Devlin's "Other at the Edge of Life" 3. Outlining Silence in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian 4. Specter and Doubt in Anna Burns' No Bones