Reappearing in Different Forms

Rory Bines-Morris
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Siobhan Dowd’s novel Bog Child explores a legacy of self-sacrifice in Ireland. From a contemporary context, it explores the second hunger strike of Long Kesh prison in the 1980s and a fictionalised famine in the first century as a more ancient example. Using Kathleen Jamie’s notion of ‘surfacing’ and Oona Frawley’s ‘memory cruxes’ as launching points to explore Bog Child, this paper works to illuminate how these temporally distant events are intricately connected through an extended history of self-sacrifice and hunger in Ireland. In the process, it also explores how, in that extended history, gendered notions have crept in, how they are reinforced and how they can be challenged. Bog Child is at its core a novel about the repetition of history, and particularly of historical cultural trauma, but one that ultimately works to offer a compassionate end to this repetition, as the paper will conclude.
以不同的形式再现
西沃恩·多德的小说《沼泽孩子》探讨了爱尔兰自我牺牲的遗产。从当代背景来看,它探讨了20世纪80年代Long Kesh监狱的第二次绝食抗议,以及一世纪虚构的饥荒,这是一个更古老的例子。本文以凯瑟琳·杰米的“浮出水面”概念和乌娜·弗劳利的“记忆关键字”为出发点,探索“沼泽孩子”,阐明了这些暂时遥远的事件是如何通过爱尔兰自我牺牲和饥饿的漫长历史错综复杂地联系在一起的。在这个过程中,它还探讨了在漫长的历史中,性别观念是如何悄悄进入的,它们是如何加强的,以及它们如何受到挑战。《沼泽孩子》的核心是一部关于历史重演的小说,尤其是历史文化创伤,但正如本文将总结的那样,它最终为这种重演提供了一个富有同情心的结局。
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