Iceland - Ireland : : memory, literature, culture on the Atlantic periphery / / edited by Fionnuala Dillane, Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
• TeilnehmendeR: Dillane, Fionnuala,; Gudmundsdóttir, Gunnthórunn,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)

Iceland and Ireland, two North-Atlantic islands on the periphery or Europe, share a long history that reaches back to the ninth century. Direct contact between the islands has ebbed and flowed like their shared Atlantic tides over the subsequent millennium, with long blanks and periods of apparently very little exchange, transit or contact. These relational and regularly ruptured histories, discontinuities and dispossessions are discussed here less to cover (again) the well-trodden ground of our national traditions. Rather, this volume productively illuminates how a variety of memory modes, expressed in trans-cultural productions and globalized genre forms, such as the stick and ball games, museums cultures, crime novels, the lyric poem, the medieval codex or historical fiction, operate in multi-directional ways as fluid transnational agents of change in and between the two islands. At the same time, there is an alertness to the ways in which physical, political and linguistic isolation and exposure have also made these islands places of forgetting.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Iceland - Ireland Memory, Literature, Culture on the Atlantic Periphery -- Fionnuala Dillane and Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir -- part 1 -- Landscapes of Crisis: Islands on the Edge -- 2 Neoliberal Memory and the Market Financialization, Algorithmic Governmentality and Boom Fiction in Iceland and Ireland -- Sharae Deckard -- 3 Precarious States of Being The 2008 Financial Crisis in Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir's Siglingin um síkin (2012) and Conor O'Callaghan's Nothing on Earth (2016) -- Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir -- 4 Warnings from the Water's Edge Deep Time and Narrative Excess in Arnaldur Indriðason's Strange Shores and Tana French's Broken Harbour -- Fionnuala Dillane -- 5 Trauma and Eco-Memory in Sjón's The Blue Fox (2003), Eimear McBride's A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing (2013) and Sara Baume's A Line Made by Walking (2017) -- Anne Fogarty -- part 2 -- Politics of Island Imaginaries -- 6 'In this corner of peace in a world of trouble' The Literature of Islands of the North-East Atlantic in the Second World War -- John Brannigan -- 7 Islands and War Remembering the Allied Occupation in Iceland -- Daisy Neijmann -- 8 'Rise, thou youthful flag of Iceland!' Moonstone and Sjón's Queer Anti-Patriotism -- Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir -- part 3 -- Framing Heritage: Mobilizing Memory and Forgetting -- 9 Gaelic Whispers What the Icelanders Remembered of Their Irish Past -- Gísli Sigurðsson -- 10 Hurling, knattleikr and the Global Tradition of Stick-and-Ball Play -- Paul Rouse -- 11 Trial Pieces Reading the Viking Past in Contemporary Irish Poetry -- Lucy Collins -- Index.