The Vanishing World of The Islandman

Narrative and Nostalgia
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-25774-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages—considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms—Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Lure of the Primitive.- 2. Writing the Past.- 3. Narrative and Voice.- 4. Translating Place.- 5. Native American and Indigenous Irish Narratives.- 6. A Continental Epic.- 7. Museum and Memoir.- 8. Irish-American Networks.

Über Autor(innen)

Máiréad Nic Craith is Professor and Chair in Cultural Heritage and Anthropological Studies and Director of the Intercultural Centre at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.