New Voices, Inherited Lines: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Irish Family

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Eamon Maher Yvonne O'Keeffe

New Voices, Inherited Lines

Literary and Cultural Representations of the Irish Family

Eamon Maher, Yvonne O'Keeffe, Claudia Reese

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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
11 July 2013

Series: Reimagining Ireland

Irish writers have always been fascinated by the family, sometimes depicting it as a traditional space under threat from external influences, sometimes highlighting the dangers lurking within. More recently, families have been represented as a type of safe haven from a bewildering postmodern world. At the heart of these constructions are questions of power and agency, as well as issues of class, gender, ethnicities and sexualities.

This collection of essays explores literary and cultural representations of the Irish family, questioning the validity of traditional familial structures as well as exploring newer versions of the Irish family emerging in more recent cultural representations. In addition to redefinitions of the nuclear family, the book also considers aspects of family constructions in Irish nationalist discourse, such as the symbolic use of the family and the interaction and conflict between private and public roles. The works and authors discussed range from Famine fiction, Samuel Beckett, Mary Lavin and John McGahern to Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and Hugo Hamilton.

Edited by: Yvonne O'Keeffe, Claudia Reese
Series edited by: Eamon Maher
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 47
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9783034307994
ISBN 10: 3034307993
Series: Reimagining Ireland
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 11 July 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yvonne O’Keeffe received her MA and PhD from the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her doctoral research explored the emigrant novels of Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), analysing Sadlier’s role in the construction of a transatlantic Irish Catholic identity in North America. Her research interests include representations of gender, identity and the diaspora in Irish fiction. Claudia Reese is a postgraduate scholar at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where she is currently completing a doctoral thesis on the works of Hugo Hamilton in the context of the Irish autobiographical tradition. Her research interests include contemporary Irish fiction and comparative aspects of German and Irish literature and culture.