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Evelyn Conlon is one of Ireland's most important writers. She has
published four collections of short stories, My Head is Opening
(1987), Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour (1993), Telling: New and
Selected Short Stories (2000) and Moving about the Place (2021) and
four novels, Stars in the Daytime (1989), A Glassful of Letters
(1998) Skin of Dreams (2003) and Not the Same Sky (2013). She has
also edited Later On: The Monaghan Bombing Memorial Anthology
(2004). Telling Truths: Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writing is
the first book to provide a critical assessment of her work.
Drawing on a variety of perspectives such as feminism, ethics,
famine studies, mobility studies, translation studies, short
fiction, narratology and historiographic metafiction, the essays
gathered in this volume reveal that Conlon's writing, characterised
by sharp observation, insistently questions the predetermined
course of female existence, explores alternative forms of freedom
and ultimately reflects her commitment to seek and tell truths. The
intersectional approach of the book is part of a current endeavour
in Irish Studies to keep interrogating well established topics, to
examine the elusiveness of others and to explore new boundaries
through renewed epistemological and ethical positions.
Historically, the Atlantic Ocean has served to define the
relationship between the so-called worlds of the 'Old' and the
'New'. A geographical divide between continents, it is also no less
a historical space across which peoples have travelled, sharing
ideas and cultural practices, a site of encounter and exchange that
has shaped the lives of communities and nations across the globe.
This book maps this productive web of multi-layered connections,
not just in terms of military, migratory, economic and commercial
actions and processes, but also of shifting lines of translation
that have mobilised ideas, fomented the exchange of experiences and
opened up channels of communication. The Atlantic is considered
here a global translation zone that has been created through a
myriad of crossings, physical and conceptual, and historically
shaped through the reciprocal influences between the different
communities situated around and beyond its shores. In the final
analysis, the book explores the Atlantic as a zone of created
relation, characterised by the interaction between processes of
translation, mobility and, in the best of cases, of hospitality;
and most importantly, as a space no longer defined by economic and
military power but by the multiplicity of identities forged in its
ambit. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced
students of translation studies, literature, history, human
geography, politics, sociology, and cultural studies. It was
originally published as a special issue of the journal, Atlantic
Studies.
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 acknowledges Ireland’s
history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it
also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even
productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical
perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues,
the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced
structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of
silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the
present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of
vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. The book ’s
attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understanding
what unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent
decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present
and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that
define how silence operates in Irish
culture.Grant FFI2017-84619-P AEI, ERDF, EU (INTRUTHS
“Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in
Contemporary Irish Fiction”) Funded by the Spanish Research
Agency
AEI http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and
by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF "A Way of Making
Europe"
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 acknowledges Ireland’s
history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it
also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even
productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical
perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues,
the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced
structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of
silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the
present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of
vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. The book ’s
attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understanding
what unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent
decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present
and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that
define how silence operates in Irish
culture.Grant FFI2017-84619-P AEI, ERDF, EU (INTRUTHS
“Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in
Contemporary Irish Fiction”) Funded by the Spanish Research
Agency
AEI http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and
by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF "A Way of Making
Europe"
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