Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction Silences that Speak /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Caneda-Cabrera, M. Teresa (Editor), Carregal-Romero, José (Editor)
Summary:	XIX, 246 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Series:	New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature,
Subjects:	Literature, Modern > 20th century. Literature, Modern > 21st century. Fiction. Great Britain > History. Contemporary Literature. Fiction Literature. History of Britain and Ireland.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30455-2
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Silences that Speak
Chapter 2: Conspicuously Silent: The excesses of Religion and Medicine in Emma Donoghue’s historical novels The Wonder and The Pull of the Stars
Chapter 3: “To Pick up the unsaid, and perhaps unknown, wishes”: Reimagining the “True Stories” of the Past in Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky
Chapter 4: “He’s been wanting to say that for a long time”: Varieties of Silence in Colm Tóibín’s Fiction
Chapter 5: The Irish Short Story and the Aesthetics of Silence
Chapter 6: Infinite Spaces: Kevin Barry’s Lives of Quiet Desperation
Chapter 7: The Silencing of Speranza
Chapter 8: “A self-interested silence”: Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon’s Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)
Chapter 9: Silence in Donal Ryan’s Fiction
Chapter 10: “Sure, aren’t the church doing their best?” Breaking Consensual Silence in Emer Martin’s The Cruelty Men
Chapter 11: Unspeakable Injuries and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People.

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