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Getting to Good Friday - Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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Getting to Good Friday - Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative
history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and
talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought
thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998
Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Drawing on decades of reading,
researching, and teaching Northern Irish literature and talking and
corresponding with Northern Irish writers, Marilynn Richtarik
describes literary reactions and contributions to the peace process
during the fifteen years preceding the Agreement and in the
immediate post-conflict era. Progress in this period hinged on
negotiators' ability to revise the terms used to discuss the
conflict. As poet Michael Longley commented in 1998, 'In its
language the Good Friday Agreement depended on an almost poetic
precision and suggestiveness to get its complicated message
across.' Interpreting selected literary works by Brian Friel,
Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Deirdre Madden, Seamus Deane,
Bernard MacLaverty, Colum McCann, and David Park within a detailed
historical frame, Richtarik demonstrates the extent to which
authors were motivated by a desire both to comment on and to
intervene in unfolding political situations. Getting to Good Friday
suggests that literature as literature-that is, in its formal
properties in addition to anything it might have to 'say' about a
given subject-can enrich readers' historical understanding. Through
Richtarik's engaging narrative, creative writing emerges as both
the medium of and a metaphor for the peace process itself.
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