Satire and Trauma in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy

IF 0.2 Q4 AREA STUDIES
Melania Terrazas
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The Butcher Boy (1992) is the third novel by Northern Irish author Patrick McCabe. It tells the story of 12-year-old Francie Brady and is set in the small town of Clones, in western County Monaghan, Ireland in the early 1960s. The town was badly hit economically by the partition of Ireland in 1921 because of its location on the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The Butcher Boy emphasises the significant influence the instability of the community during the 1960s, a time of rapid change and ethnic and political violence, has on this dysfunctional Brady family. These political and economic circumstances are very relevant for our discussion because the Bradys, as part of this small community, suffer from some post-traumatic consequences derived from these circumstances, which affect their psychological state and identity in very negative terms. This paper focuses on how McCabe recreates Francie’s post-traumatic effects of such a difficult childhood and upbringing through formal literary devices characteristic of both trauma fiction and satire rhetoric, and to what effect the Irish writer uses them.
帕特里克·麦凯布《屠夫男孩》中的讽刺与创伤
《屠夫男孩》(1992)是北爱尔兰作家帕特里克·麦凯布的第三部小说。它告诉了12岁的弗兰西·布雷迪的故事,故事发生在20世纪60年代初爱尔兰莫纳汉县西部的克隆小镇。该镇位于北爱尔兰费尔马纳郡的边界,在1921年爱尔兰分治时受到了严重的经济打击。《屠夫男孩》强调了20世纪60年代社区的不稳定对这个功能失调的布雷迪家庭的重大影响,这是一个快速变化、种族和政治暴力的时代。这些政治和经济情况与我们的讨论非常相关,因为布雷迪一家作为这个小社区的一部分,遭受着这些情况带来的一些创伤后后果,这些后果对他们的心理状态和身份产生了非常负面的影响。本文的重点是麦凯布如何通过创伤小说和讽刺修辞的正式文学手法,再现弗兰西在如此艰难的童年和成长过程中的创伤后影响,以及爱尔兰作家使用这些手段的效果。
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