Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction : Silences That Speak.
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2023.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Praise for Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Silences that Speak
- References
- 2 Conspicuously Silent: The Excesses of Religion and Medicine in Emma Donoghue's Historical Novels The Wonder and The Pull of the Stars
- Introduction
- The Cultural History Approach
- The Wonder (2016)
- The Pull of the Stars (2020)
- Conclusion
- References
- 3 "To Pick Up the Unsaid, and Perhaps Unknown, Wishes": Reimagining the "True Stories" of the Past in Evelyn Conlon's Not the Same Sky
- References
- 4 "He's Been Wanting to Say That for a Long Time": Varieties of Silence in Colm Tóibín's Fiction
- References
- 5 The Irish Short Story and the Aesthetics of Silence
- Introduction
- Formal Strategies of Silence
- Themes of Silence in Irish Short Fiction
- The Ambivalence of Silence in Claire Keegan's Fiction
- Conclusion
- References
- 6 Infinite Spaces: Kevin Barry's Lives of Quiet Desperation
- Submerged Population Group
- Lives of Quiet Desperation
- Primal Scream
- Nothing Happens, Twice
- The Old Lost Voices
- References
- 7 The Silencing of Speranza
- References
- 8 "A Self-Interested Silence": Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon's Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)
- Conclusion
- References
- 9 Silence in Donal Ryan's Fiction
- Introduction
- Silence in Donal Ryan's Fiction
- The Spinning Heart (2012)
- The Thing About December (2013)
- All We Shall Know (2016)
- From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018)
- Strange Flowers (2018)
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- 10 "Sure, Aren't the Church Doing Their Best?" Breaking Consensual Silence in Emer Martin's The Cruelty Men
- Introduction: "The Silences of Our Past"
- Consensual Silence and National Narratives
- The Cruelty Men.
- Conclusion: Stories of Conscience and Social Justice
- References
- 11 Unspeakable Injuries and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Normal People
- "I Just Let it Fall off into Silence": Neoliberalism and the Ethics of Care in Conversations with Friends
- "They Had the Same Unnameable Spiritual Injury": Vulnerability, Objectification and Silence in Normal People
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.