Trauma and History in the Irish Novel: The Return of the Dead - Hardcover

Garratt, Robert F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230250300 ISBN 13: 9780230250307

Verlag: AIAA, 2010

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A study of the use of traumatic memory in recent Irish fiction that deals with early twentieth century Irish history

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Reseña del editor:

This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and the historical novel, and the way certain novelists looked to early events in twentieth-century Irish history to engage the recent political violence in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.

The novels have at least one narrative strategy in common: characters that suffer traumatically. Individuals witnessing or participating in an act of violence are portrayed as permanently attached to that moment - they are in the grip of their own traumatic history. The sense that history repeats itself, which gnawed at Irish political thought during the 1970s and 1980s, is a central tenet of trauma theory and traumatic experience, and lies at the heart of these novels.

The novelists discussed here are some of the most recognizable names in late twentieth-century Irish fiction, including J. G. Farrell, Julia O'Faolain, William Trevor, Jennifer Johnston, John McGahern, Patrick McCabe and Sebastian Barry.

Biografía del autor:

ROBERT F. GARRATT is Professor of English and Humanities at the University of Puget Sound, Washington State, USA. His previous publications include Modern Irish Poetry: Tradition and Continuity from Yeats to Heaney; The Uses of the Past: Essays on Irish Culture and Society and Critical Essays on Seamus Heaney.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230250300
• ISBN 13: 9780230250307
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182