ABEI JournalPub Date : 2019-02-26DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3201
G. Wolkoff
{"title":"Pondering from Celia de Fréne's Works: Literary Genres and Sexual Gender at Stake","authors":"G. Wolkoff","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3201","url":null,"abstract":"How can we go beyond historically constructed gender differences, as we read literary genres in the contemporary Irish context? In order to start finding responses to these questions, we aim at looking into how selves are constructed and identities represented as we read Celia de Fréine’s works. Indeed, concepts of identity in postmodernity, represented selves and literary genres, particularly related to the recent Irish literary context are fundamental points of convergence in the understanding of feminisms and literature today. Therefore, this article intends to show how fixed concepts of gender identity and literary genres are, in fact, unstable in contemporaneity. The paralleled, theoretical notions (of gender and genres) matter in the Irish context, because, apart from a few exceptions, women have been excluded from the public literary scene and many of the poets that appeared after the 1970’s account for their condition as women in a patriarchal society. Moreover, it matters due to the proximity of both cases’ unstable condition in our times.Keywords: Contemporary Irish poetry; literary genres; gender; contemporaneity.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"460 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85548846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2019-02-26DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3224
José Carregal-Romero
{"title":"Irishness on the Margins: Minority and Dissident Identities","authors":"José Carregal-Romero","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3224","url":null,"abstract":"Villar-Argáiz, Pilar (ed). Irishness on the Margins: Minority and Dissident Identities. London: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2018. 290p.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"353 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76472455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2019-02-26DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3225
Mariana Bolfarine
{"title":"Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-Century Irish Novel","authors":"Mariana Bolfarine","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3225","url":null,"abstract":"Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen, Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-Century Irish Novel. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90817980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2019-02-26DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3222
Divanize Carbonieri
{"title":"Poems by Mary O'Donnelll","authors":"Divanize Carbonieri","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78977551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2019-02-26DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3202
H. Schwall
{"title":"Stylizing Life: Empathy and Translation in Roisín O'Donnell's Transcultural Writing","authors":"H. Schwall","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3202","url":null,"abstract":"As an arch-migrant, Roisín O’Donnell moves between mental, spatial and verbal homes, between teaching and writing. In “How to be a Billionaire” and “Crushed”, two short stories which wrap her volume Wild Quiet (2016) she develops a “narratology of otherness”, using a combination of empathy and translation to convey her new Irish schoolchildren’s “tussles with identities” into complex and colourful texts, allowing the reader glimpses of the ways in which her protagonists shift between affects and emotions, phantasms and memories, confusion and trauma. Fed by the theories of Jacques Lacan, Christopher Bollas, René Anzieu and Giorgio Agamben this article will perform a close reading of the formal ingenuities in O’Donnell’s style, devised to represent the “crowded nature of contemporary selfhood”. More specifically this reading focuses on six kinds of communication: body language, dress code, gestural idiom (in “Gestalten”), impact of spatial factors, verbal abilities, and finally emotional and mental images which form a kind of “pellicular” diary.Keywords: Roisín O’Donnell; Wild Quiet; “How to be a Billionaire”; “Crushed”; new Irish; Gestalt; RIS system; the good enough parent.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74361706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2019-02-26DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3203
María Isabel Arriaga
{"title":"Mothers and Daughters in Conflict in the Motherland, Edna O'Brien's The Light of Evening","authors":"María Isabel Arriaga","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3203","url":null,"abstract":"The Light of Evening explores the difficult relationship between two Irish mothers and their daughters: Dilly Macready and Eleanora, a writer whose life shares many common features with that of Edna O’Brien’s, on the one hand, and young Dilly’s previous relationship with her own mother, Bridget, on the other hand. Both relationships are depicted through a succession of daily letters, usually not sent. These conflictive bonds resemble those of Irish people with their motherland throughout the twentieth century.This tension emerges, in all cases, when expected roles assigned to women by a patriarchal culture clash with the desire of emancipation and selfdevelopment. The purpose of this article is to explore mother-daughter representations in O’Brien’s novel in order to analyse the author’s own conflictive relationship with Ireland in her early development as a creative writer. Immigration, tradition, memory and fragmented identity, all constituitive elements of Irish history, are present in this paper.Keywords: Mothers; conflict; exile; tradition; motherland.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87447107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2019-02-26DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3226
Patrícia de Aquino Prudente
{"title":"National Identities and Imperfection in Contemporary Irish Literature: Unbecoming Irishness","authors":"Patrícia de Aquino Prudente","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3226","url":null,"abstract":"Gonzáles-Arias, Luz Mar (ed.). National Identities and Imperfection in Contemporary Irish Literature: Unbecoming Irishness. London; Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 248pp.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78693975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2019-02-26DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3204
Pilar Villar-Argáiz
{"title":"Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards","authors":"Pilar Villar-Argáiz","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I2.3204","url":null,"abstract":"This essay looks at the interconnections between the cultural industry of popular romance and best-selling novels set in an Irish historical context. In particular, it examines two best-selling novels by North American author Karen Robards, which have not yet been examined in academia: Dark of the Moon (1988) and Forbidden Love (2013; originally published in 1983). Although this small selection constitutes only a preliminary study of an expanding popular genre, it is my hope that it will serve as a relevant example of how Ireland is exoticised in the transnational cultural industry of romance. Drawing on several studies on popular romance (Radway 1984; Strehle and Carden 2009; and Roach 2016), and on specific sources devoted to the study of historical romance, in particular when set in exotic locations (Hughes 2005; Philips 2011; Teo 2012; 2016), I intend to demonstrate how these novels by Karen Robards follow the clichés and conventions of the typical romances produced in the 1980s. As I show, the popularity that Robards’ novels still enjoy reflects the supremacy of the genre and the wide reception of this kind of fiction in the global market.Keywords: Cultural industry; popular romance; Irish context; market.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79097530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2018-09-23DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I1.3093
D. M. Glynn
{"title":"Disruptive Community: The Irish in Argentina. Readings of Rodolfo Walsh and Juan José Delaney","authors":"D. M. Glynn","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I1.3093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I1.3093","url":null,"abstract":"A community is principally characterized by the collectivity of its members and is defined spatially in terms of arbitrary boundaries that consistently separate its inhabitants from ‘Others’ and the “otherness” of the external world. For a number of centuries the diasporic Irish community has been able to forge communal spaces in Caribbean and Latin American nations, most prominently in Argentina. Nonetheless, these Irish communities in Argentine literature are often represented as insular and, therefore, disruptive to the monolithic national discourse of the host country. The portrayal of the diasporic Irish figure, which deviates from patterns of social normativity, constitutes an important facet of these individuals that permits an analysis of the ways in which their presence interrupts the Argentine literary imaginary. As Hellen Kelly observes, “‘deviancy’ in its variant forms has become, therefore, the most accessible and fruitful approach to assessing levels of integration amongst Irish immigrant communities” (128). In order to examine and comment on the various forms of deviations and, at the same time, the levels of integration of the immigrant Irish community, I offer my readings of the three short stories which comprise the “Irish series” by Rodolfo Walsh and Juan José Delaney’s novel Moira Sullivan. I look to interrogate the elements of the diasporic Irish experience which have informed and given shape to representations of diasporic Irish individuals and the spaces they occupy. I also seek to problematize previous readings of the selected texts that have, in general, omitted any critical consideration of and reflection upon their imbued ‘Irishness’ within the context of Argentine literary imaginaries.Keywords: Rodolfo Walsh; Juan José Delaney; Irishness; Irish immigration.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73543613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABEI JournalPub Date : 2018-09-23DOI: 10.37389/ABEI.V20I1.3100
G. McEvoy
{"title":"Reflections on The Invisible Experience. Irish Immigrants in Peru","authors":"G. McEvoy","doi":"10.37389/ABEI.V20I1.3100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37389/ABEI.V20I1.3100","url":null,"abstract":"Through the study of a variety of primary sources such as letters, wills, birth, marriage, and death certificates, the author examines Irish immigration to Peru in mid nineteenth century. In this sense, McEvoy focuses on some of the most representative examples of Irish immigrants. That is, both workers and peasants who were part of one of the first migration projects to Peru and to successful immigrants such as John Patrick Gallagher O'Connor and William Russell Grace, who shortly after reaching Peru, became businessmen and prestigious professionals. By recovering Irish immigrant voices, this book reconstructs part of the story of men and women that printed their culture in Peru and contributed with the construction of modern Peru.Keywords: Irish diaspora; immigration projects; mobilized and proletariat diaspora; assimilation; transnationalism.","PeriodicalId":52691,"journal":{"name":"ABEI Journal","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81500937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}