New Publication: Ireland and Dysfunction
Ireland and Dysfunction: Critical Explorations in Literature and Film
Editor: Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
ISBN (10): 1-4438-1203-X. ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1203-0
Book Description
This collection of critical essays finds itself at the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, and explores the various ways in which dysfunction is expressed in Irish studies. Dysfunction can be regarded as part and parcel of a portrayal of a landscape of trauma and crisis that may have been traditionally repressed in Ireland at large. However, dysfunction also envisages mediation, managing, transcending and healing. As such, this volume examines how Ireland tackles dysfunction at large, but more importantly, how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in the understanding of the ever-changing and on-going process of the construction of an Irish identity today; sometimes looking back at the past, but always creating the need of inventing new ways to understand the future of Ireland. The collection presents essays which tackle dysfunction from different and multifarious perspectives that range from sociological, historical and literary discourses to more contemporary insights into dysfunction in today’s Ireland. It encompasses theory and analysis and includes the works of both senior academics and emerging scholars, as well as those outside academia.
Biography
Dr Asier Altuna-García de Salazar is Chairperson of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies, and Associate Professor in English and Irish Studies and Head of the Department of Modern Languages and Basque Studies at the University of Deusto, Bilbao. A former Director of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Arts in Euroculture, his publications include articles on 19th century Spain and the Basque Country in Irish writing, and multicultural, transcultural and Celtic Tiger Ireland and literature. He has co-edited Re-Writing Boundaries: Critical Approaches in Irish Studies (2007), New Perspectives on James Joyce: Ignatius Loyola, make haste to help me! (2009), and Rethinking Citizenship: New Voices in Euroculture (2013).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor’s Introduction ……………………………………………………………………… vii
Asier Altuna-Garcia De Salazar
Section I: Dysfunction and Cinema in Ireland Today
Chapter One ……………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Cinematic Representations of Immigrants in Irish Ethnographic Films:
Alan Grossman and Áine O’Brien’s Documentary Work
Pilar Villar-Argáiz
Chapter Two …………………………………………………………………………………. 27
Intimations of Personal and Social Anomie in Kirsten Sheridan’s
Irish-Set Feature Films
Rosa González-Casademont
Section Two: Dysfunction: Sexuality, Dislocation and Space
Chapter Three ……………………………………………………………………………….. 49
Sexuality and Dysfunction in Kate O’Brien
Aintzane Legarreta-Mentxaka
Chapter Four …………………………………………………………………………………. 71
Kate O’Brien and Spain
Eibhear Walshe
Chapter Five …………………………………………………………………………………. 87
Representing a Dysfunctional City: Belfast in Texts and Images
Stephanie Schwerter
Section Three: Dysfunction: Family, Home and Memory
Chapter Six …………………………………………………………………………………. 107
Family Dysfunctionality and New Ireland in Colm Tóibín’s
Mothers and Sons
José M. Yebra
Chapter Seven ……………………………………………………………………………… 127
Family and Dysfunction in Edna O’Brien’s A Pagan Place
Sara Martín-Ruiz
Chapter Eight ………………………………………………………………………………. 147
The (Dys)Function of Memory: Glimpses of Childhood
in John McGahern’s Memoir and Edna O’Brien’s Country Girl
Inés Praga-Terente
Chapter Nine ……………………………………………………………………………….. 165
The Silent Mother of the Dysfunctional Family: A Feminist Approach
to Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Burcu Gülüm Tekin
Section Four: Dysfunction: Struggles and Quests
Chapter Ten ………………………………………………………………………………… 183
In the Beginning Was Silence: Brian Friel’s Revisitation of the Artist
María Gaviña-Costero
Chapter Eleven ……………………………………………………………………………. 201
“Back or on, I don’t know”: Samuel Beckett’s From an Abandoned Work
María José Carrera
Chapter Twelve …………………………………………………………………………… 219
James Joyce and Pío Baroja’s Dysfunctional Relationships with their
Countries: A Quest for Independence
Olga Fernández-Vicente
Section Five: Interview
Chapter Thirteen ………………………………………………………………………….. 245
“Writing is a Compulsion”: In Conversation with Billy O’Callaghan
Marisol Morales-Ladrón
Contributors ………………………………………………………………………………… 265
Index ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 271
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