Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature

Wounds of the Body and the Soul
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-40965-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature

This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on both body and mind (Caruth 1996, 3) and the soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland and the Republic within a contemporary context, and in literary works written at the turn of the twenty-first century and beyond. These artistic manifestations connect tradition and modernity, debunk myths, break the silence with the exposure of uncomfortable realities, dismantle stereotypes and reflect reality with precision. Women’s issues and female experiences depicted in contemporary fiction may provide an explanation for past and present gender dynamics, revealing a pathway for further renegotiation of gender roles and the achievement of equilibrium and equality between sexes. These works might help to seal and heal wounds both old and new and offer solutions to the quandaries of tomorrow.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armie, Madalina

Membrive, Veronica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

MADALINA ARMIE AND VERÓNICA MEMBRIVE

Introduction

PART I – ESSAYS

JESSICA ALIAGA-LAVRIJSEN

University of Zaragoza, Spain

- Trauma, Reproduction and Breeding in Catherine Brophy’s Dark Paradise

BURCU GÜLÜM TEKIN

University of Zaragoza, Spain

- Different Kinds of Love: Silenced Women in Leland Bardwell’s Short Fiction

ELENA CANTUESO URBANO AND MARÍA ISABEL ROMERO RUIZ

University of Málaga, Spain

- Trauma after a Life of Torture in Irish Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Survivors’ Testimonies and Patricia Burke-Brogan’s Stained Glass at Samhain

PAULA ROMO-MAYOR

University of Zaragoza, Spain

- Shattering the Moulds of Tradition: The Role of Women in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Rachel Seiffert’s The Walk Home

MELANIA TERRAZAS

University of La Rioja, Spain

- Representations of Trauma, Memory and the Silencing of Irish Women: Storytelling in Emer Martin’s The Cruelty Men

F.B. SCHÜRMANN

University College Dublin (UCD), School of English, Drama, and Film, Ireland

- Exposition of a Half-formed System: Trauma and Other Matters in Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing



ALICIA MURO

University of La Rioja, Spain

- Damaged Women: Trauma, Shame and Silence in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People

KAYLA FANNING

Concordia University, Canada

- Conditions of Homecoming: Self-Care and Anticipation in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours and The Surface Breaks

ASIER ALTUNA-GARCÍA DE SALAZAR

University of Deusto, Spain

- Confronting Female Unspeakable Truths in Ireland: Donal Ryan’s Strange Flowers

MAYRON ESTEFAN CANTILLO-LUCUARA

University of Valencia, Spain

- Emma Donoghue’s Hood and the Aesthetics of Existential Claustrophobia: From Traumatic Self-Retreat to Uncloseted Grief

MARÍA GAVIÑA-COSTERO

University of Valencia, Spain

- Don’t Tell Them: The Strategy of Silence in Anna Burns’ Milkman



PART 2. PIECES OF CREATIVE WRITING

CATHERINE DUNNE

- A Good Enough Mother

Unpublished literary piece of novel



MIA GALLAGHER

- Dirty Irish Punk

Unpublished literary piece of novel



LIA MILLS

- "Flight"

Reissued short story

Über Autor(innen)

Madalina Armie earned a master’s degree in English language and literature (2014) from the University of Almería. She completed her PhD on the contemporary Irish short story at the turn of the twenty-first century at the University of Almería (2019), for which she obtained the EIDUAL Dissertation Award 2019 for Best Doctoral Dissertation (2021) and the honorary second prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Studies for Equality and the Fight against Gender Violence of the University of Almeria (2022). Her current areas of research include the contemporary Irish short story and Irish women’s writing. She has published articles and reviews in international journals, such as Irish Studies Review, Estudios Irlandeses, Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and Studi Irlandesi. Armie is the author of the monograph The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: Tradition, Society and Modernity also published by Routledge. She is currently teaching at the University of Almeria, Spain.

Veronica Membrive completed her PhD at the University of Almería (2017) on Irish travel writers in Spain during the twentieth century. She has published articles and book chapters on Walter Starkie, Kate O’Brien, Aidan Higgins, Pearse Hutchison and their travels in Spain. She is currently teaching English at the University of Almería. She has been awarded the International George Campbell Award for her research on Hiberno-Spanish cultural relations (University of Málaga, 2018).