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Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008

Gender, Bodies, Memory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

AvSusan Cahill,Dr Susan Cahill

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"When Irish culture and economics underwent rapid changes during the Celtic Tiger Years, Anne Enright, Colum McCann and ils N Dhuibhne began writing. Now that period of Irish history has closed, this study uncovers how their writing captured that unique historical moment. By showing how N Dhuibhne's novels act as considered arguments against attempts to disavow the past, how McCann's protagonists come to terms with their history and how Enright's fiction explores connections and relationships with the female body, Susan Cahill's study pinpoints common concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the body, memory and history, between generations, and between past and present. Cahill is able to raise wider questions about Irish culture by looking specifically at how writers engage with the body. In exploring the writers concern with embodied histories, related questions concerning gender, race, and Irishness are brought to the fore. Such interrogations of corporeality alongside history are imperative, making this a significant contribution to ongoing debates of feminist theory in Irish Studies."

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Utgivningsdatum2011-08-11
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt529 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContinuum Literary Studies
Antal sidor240
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441152022

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Introduction; 1. Irish Bodyscapes; 2. Submerged Histories: Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's The Bray House and The Dancers Dancing; 3. Corporeal Genealogies: Colum McCann's Songdogs and This Side of Brightness; 4. Bodily Doubles and Dislocations: Anne Enright's The Wig My Father Wore and What Are You Like?; 5. Embodied Histories: Colum McCann's Dancer and Let the Great World Spin, and Anne Enright's The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch; 6. Celtic Tiger Bodies: Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow and Anne Enright's The Gathering; Conclusion: Bodies and Futures; Bibliography; Index.

With the Celtic Tiger well and truly dead, it's time for the post-mortem to begin, and this book represents a significant contribution to that process. Susan Cahill's study of a number of important novelists offers an overview of an extraordinary period in modern Irish history, as well as close analyses of some of the most sensitive artistic responses to the island's changing fortunes. In teasing out the complex interplay between time, memory and the body, Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years challenges the theoretical parameters of contemporary Irish cultural criticism, while also providing a compelling vision of the vicissitudes of modern Irish identity.