Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction Silences that Speak
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study ackn...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Silences that Speak
- Chapter 2: Conspicuously Silent: The excesses of Religion and Medicine in Emma Donoghue’s historical novels The Wonder and The Pull of the Stars
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 4: “He’s been wanting to say that for a long time”: Varieties of Silence in Colm Tóibín’s Fiction
- Chapter 5: The Irish Short Story and the Aesthetics of Silence
- Chapter 6: Infinite Spaces: Kevin Barry’s Lives of Quiet Desperation
- Chapter 7: The Silencing of Speranza
- Chapter 8: “A self-interested silence”: Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon’s Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)
- Chapter 9: Silence in Donal Ryan’s Fiction
- Chapter 10: “Sure, aren’t the church doing their best?” Breaking Consensual Silence in Emer Martin’s The Cruelty Men
- Chapter 11: Unspeakable Injuries and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People