《儿童性丑闻》与现代爱尔兰文学:约瑟夫·瓦伦蒂、玛戈特·盖尔·巴克斯的《无法言说》(书评)

IF 0.1 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES
Mary M. Burke
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在20世纪60年代和70年代,爱尔兰经历了更加开放的经济,更多的受教育机会,加入了欧洲经济共同体,这一切都表明,自20世纪20年代独立以来,天主教教义在该国的影响力可能开始减弱。此外,在爱尔兰,这一教条尤其以性道德为中心。然而,1979年教皇约翰·保罗二世在戈尔韦举行的青年弥撒上,他是由当地天主教主教埃蒙·凯西(Eamonn Casey)介绍的,成千上万的人热情地参加了弥撒,直到20世纪80年代,教会的控制仍然如此,以至于关于堕胎和离婚的全民公决没有成功。1992年5月,在他与爱尔兰裔美国情人安妮·墨菲(Annie Murphy)在20世纪70年代生下一个儿子的消息被披露后,凯西突然辞去了主教职务,这一曝光动摇了爱尔兰天主教会的根基;5个月后,爱尔兰流行歌手辛海姆·奥康纳在《周六夜现场》上毁掉了教皇的照片,这一举动或许让美国人感到困惑,但在爱尔兰,这一举动是有道理的。尽管主教有虚伪的意味,但导致教会堕落的婚外情涉及两个自愿的成年人,与不久出现的各种性丑闻形成鲜明对比。某种“无法言说”的东西显然塑造了这位爱尔兰平信徒对性的不成熟看法,这段黑暗的历史开始在墨菲1993年的回忆录中浮现出来,书中透露,凯西曾试图将她限制在爱尔兰的一所修道院,强迫她把孩子交给别人收养墨菲的披露并没有立即引起人们对她20世纪70年代与凯西幽会的淫荡讨论的关注。约瑟夫·瓦伦特和玛格特·盖尔·巴克斯在《儿童性丑闻与现代爱尔兰文学:书写不可言说》一书中对爱尔兰的儿童虐待进行了深入的介绍性调查,其含义是,凯西试图囚禁母亲和“私生子”才是真正的丑闻(23)。墨菲1993年的揭露预示了随后关于监禁,性虐待和身体虐待,以及在独立后爱尔兰的妓院,抹大拉洗衣店和母婴之家负责的牧师,兄弟或修女手中忽视弱势儿童及其母亲的揭露的冲击。从20世纪90年代开始,更让人愤怒的是,有爆料称,公司高层一再把代表——————————————————
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The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable by Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus (review)
I the 1960s and 1970s, Ireland experienced a more open economy, greater access to education, and European Economic Community membership, which all suggested that the strength of Catholic dogma in the state since independence in the 1920s might begin to lessen. In Ireland, moreover, that dogma had particularly centered upon sexual morality. However, Pope John Paul II’s Mass for Youth in Galway in 1979, where he was introduced by the local Catholic bishop, Eamonn Casey, was enthusiastically attended by hundreds of thousands of people, and into the 1980s the Church’s grip remained such that referenda on abortion and divorce were unsuccessful. Casey, popular and high profile throughout this whole period, resigned his bishopric suddenly in May 1992 after it was revealed that in the 1970s he had fathered a son with his Irish-American lover, Annie Murphy, an exposé that shook the foundations of the Catholic Church in Ireland; Irish pop star Sinéad O’Connor’s destruction of a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live five months later may have perplexed America, but the gesture made sense in Ireland. Despite the implications of hypocrisy on the bishop’s part, the affair that initiated the Church’s fall from grace involved two consenting adults, in contrast to the kinds of sex scandals soon to emerge. Something “unspeakable” had clearly shaped the Irish laity’s stunted view of sexuality, and this dark history started to emerge in Murphy’s 1993 memoir, which revealed that Casey had sought to involuntarily confine her in an Irish convent and force her to give up their child for adoption.1 Murphy’s disclosure garnered little immediate attention amid salacious discussion of her 1970s trysts with Casey. The implication of Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus’s deeply informative introductory survey of child abuse in Ireland in The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable, however, is that Casey’s attempted confinement of both mother and “illegitimate” child was the real scandal (23). Murphy’s 1993 revelation heralded the subsequent onslaught of disclosures regarding the incarceration, sexual and physical abuse, and neglect of vulnerable children and their mothers at the hands of the priests, brothers, or nuns in charge of post-independence Ireland’s borstals, Magdalene Laundries, and Mother and Baby Homes. Further sources of outrage from the 1990s onward were revelations that the hierarchy repeatedly placed the rep-
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1963 at the University of Tulsa by Thomas F. Staley, the James Joyce Quarterly has been the flagship journal of international Joyce studies ever since. In each issue, the JJQ brings together a wide array of critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, and reception of James Joyce. We encourage submissions of all types, welcoming archival, historical, biographical, and critical research. Each issue of the JJQ provides a selection of peer-reviewed essays representing the very best in contemporary Joyce scholarship. In addition, the journal publishes notes, reviews, letters, a comprehensive checklist of recent Joyce-related publications, and the editor"s "Raising the Wind" comments.
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