Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008 Gender, Bodies, Memory
, by Cahill, SusanNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781441152022 | 1441152024
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/11/2011
When Irish culture and economics underwent rapid changes during the Celtic Tiger Years, Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne began writing. Now that period of Irish history has closed, this study uncovers how their writing captured that unique historical moment. By showing how Ní Dhuibhne's novels try to deny the past, how McCann's protagonists come to terms with their history and how Enright's fiction explores connections and relationships with the female body, Susan Cahill's study pinpoints common concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the body, memory and history, between generations, and between past and present.