Recent Contributions to the Irish Novel by Sara Baume, Anna Burns and Eleanor O’ReillyOn Language, Words and Wordlessness

  1. Estévez-Saá, Margarita 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

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Revista:
Oceánide

ISSN: 1989-6328

Ano de publicación: 2020

Título do exemplar: Oceánide 13-2020

Número: 13

Páxinas: 85-94

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.37668/OCEÁNIDE.V13I.44 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

The purpose of this contribution is to study three young writers who have offered, in the past three years, in a distinctively new voice, further instances of the Irish writers’ endless ability to experiment with the form of the novel. Sara Baume’s "A Line Made by Walking" (2017), Anna Burns’s "Milkman" (2018), and Eleanor O’Reilly’s "m for mammy" (2019) are three representative instances of the potential of the form of the novel in the hands of Irish women writers. Each of these novels deserve a study in its own due to their complexity and interest, but analysing them together offers us a unique opportunity to assess the thriving state of novel writing in Ireland, especially in the hands of Irish women writers.The three novels object of our study deal with identity crises, and they similarly represent their protagonists as struggling against society and its structures, be it the family, local communities, the world of art, nature or politics. Furthermore, the three authors have been able to devise alternative narrative styles, techniques and even endings that enabled them to render the complexities of the topics dealt with as well as to represent the unstable condition of their protagonists. In addition, Baume, Burns and O’Reilly have significantly chosen as protagonists female characters with artistic or intellectual aspirations who allow the authors to endow their respective narratives with metaliterary meditations on the possibilities as well as limits of language, words and wordlessness.

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This?article?was?supported?by?the?following?funded?projects?and? institutions, which are hereby gratefully acknowledged: Research network “Rede de Lingua e Literatura inglesa e Identidade III” (http://Rede-Ing-III.eu) (ED431D2017/17), Xunta de Galicia / ERDF-UE;?Research?project?“Eco-Fictions”?(FEM2015-66937-P),? Ministry?of?Economy?and?Competitiveness?/?ERDF-UE;?Research? project “El tropo animal” (PGC-2018-093545-B100), Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities-State Agency for Research-?EI?/?ERDF-UE;?and?by?the?Research?Group?of?Discourse?and? Identity (D&I, GI-1934; ED431C 2019/01), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

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