Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel

ISBN-13: 9780815635857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 200 str.

Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

Opis

Considers the ways in which the Irish canon not only represents an ongoing awareness of trauma as a literary and cultural force, but also how this representation has shifted since the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
Credits


Introduction

1. "My Memory Gropes in Search of Details"
2. "A Whole Fucking Country--Drowning in Shame"
3. "Surmises Held Up against the Truth"
4. "Stories Are a Different Kind of True"
5. "Nothing is Entirely by Itself"
6. Trauma, Recovery, and Intertextual Redemption in Colm Toibin's Nora Webster

Notes
Works Cited
Index