Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction : : Silences That Speak.

• Superior document: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Series
• Author: Caneda-Cabrera, M. Teresa.
• TeilnehmendeR: Carregal-Romero, José.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Praise for Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Silences that Speak -- References -- 2 Conspicuously Silent: The Excesses of Religion and Medicine in Emma Donoghue's Historical Novels The Wonder and The Pull of the Stars -- Introduction -- The Cultural History Approach -- The Wonder (2016) -- The Pull of the Stars (2020) -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 "To Pick Up the Unsaid, and Perhaps Unknown, Wishes": Reimagining the "True Stories" of the Past in Evelyn Conlon's Not the Same Sky -- References -- 4 "He's Been Wanting to Say That for a Long Time": Varieties of Silence in Colm Tóibín's Fiction -- References -- 5 The Irish Short Story and the Aesthetics of Silence -- Introduction -- Formal Strategies of Silence -- Themes of Silence in Irish Short Fiction -- The Ambivalence of Silence in Claire Keegan's Fiction -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Infinite Spaces: Kevin Barry's Lives of Quiet Desperation -- Submerged Population Group -- Lives of Quiet Desperation -- Primal Scream -- Nothing Happens, Twice -- The Old Lost Voices -- References -- 7 The Silencing of Speranza -- References -- 8 "A Self-Interested Silence": Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon's Rocky Road to Dublin (1967) -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Silence in Donal Ryan's Fiction -- Introduction -- Silence in Donal Ryan's Fiction -- The Spinning Heart (2012) -- The Thing About December (2013) -- All We Shall Know (2016) -- From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018) -- Strange Flowers (2018) -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 10 "Sure, Aren't the Church Doing Their Best?" Breaking Consensual Silence in Emer Martin's The Cruelty Men -- Introduction: "The Silences of Our Past" -- Consensual Silence and National Narratives -- The Cruelty Men.

Conclusion: Stories of Conscience and Social Justice -- References -- 11 Unspeakable Injuries and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Normal People -- "I Just Let it Fall off into Silence": Neoliberalism and the Ethics of Care in Conversations with Friends -- "They Had the Same Unnameable Spiritual Injury": Vulnerability, Objectification and Silence in Normal People -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.