This book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in
the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the
work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of
lethargy acquired along the way. The book offers an in-depth and
extensive reading of Carr's plays. In doing so, it surveys some of
the destructive issues represented in the works and provides a
series of social and cultural contexts to which the concerns in the
works are related. Carr is best known for her trilogy, The Mai,
Portia Coughlan and By the Bog of Cats..., and more recently Woman
and Scarecrow, The Cordelia Dream and Marble. The plays are
regularly concerned with notions of identity in the context of
self-destruction, self-estrangement and displacement. This book
applies Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to Carr's plays in an
effort to structure the loss the author identifies in the works.
Themes of memory, history and myth are examined in the context of
these concerns in provocative and confrontational ways.
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