... narrative structure, and to the kind of stories that gettold and retold about the Irish, so as to reveal both the regularity ofEnglish colonial discourse on Ireland and the Irish and the mutations ... take up and extend Said’s insight, in Culture and Imperialism,that the ‘‘convergence between the patterns of narrative authorityconstitutive of the novel on the one hand, and, on the other, a ... husband and wife, happily or unhappily joined;occasionally, too, as mother and child, as father and daughter, or asbrothers. As feminists well know, family thinking can imply hierarchyand...