@article{1469425,
      author = {Caneda-Cabrera, M. Teresa and Carregal, José,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1469425},
      title = {Narratives of the unspoken in contemporary Irish fiction :  silences that speak /},
      abstract = {This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers  an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice  and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the  unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish  society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The  study acknowledges Irelands history of damaging silences  and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how  silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of  expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the  individual essays address, among other issues, the  conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced  structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery  of silenced stories/voices of the past and their  examination in the present, as well as millennial  disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in todays  neoliberal Ireland. The book s attention to silence  provides a rich vocabulary for understanding what unfolds  in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent  decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the  present and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and  discontinuities that define how silence operates in Irish  culture. M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera is Senior Lecturer in  English at the University of Vigo, Spain. She is the author  of a monograph on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  and sits on the Editorial Board of European Joyce Studies.  Her research on silence and vulnerability in contemporary  Irish fiction has been funded by the Spanish MCIN, AEI and  ERDF. She is the co-editor of Atlantic Communities:  Translation, Mobility, Hospitality (2023) and the editor of  Telling Truths: Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writing  (2023). Jos Carregal-Romero lectures at the University of  Huelva, Spain. His research focuses on the intersections  between gender and sexuality in contemporary Irish  literature, with a keen interest in silence and  vulnerability. He is the co-editor of Revolutionary  Ireland, 19162016: Historical Facts & Social  Transformations Re-Assessed (2020) and the author of Queer  Whispers: Gay and Lesbian Voices of Irish Fiction (2021).},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30455-2},
      recid = {1469425},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 246 pages).},
}