NEW BOOK: The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney
Edited By Angelos Bollas | Routledge
The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance.
This comprehensive collection brings together contributions from international scholars who explore Rooney’s novels through a range of interdisciplinary lenses, including literary studies, gender theory, political analysis, and cultural criticism. The book provides critical insights into Rooney’s exploration of millennial identity, class dynamics, relationships, and the evolving role of technology in shaping human connections. By situating Rooney’s work within both the global context and post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, the collection presents a nuanced understanding of her literary impact.
The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney is essential reading for academics and students studying contemporary Irish literature. The volume not only highlights the significance of Rooney’s work in contemporary literature but also expands on its sociopolitical relevance, making it an indispensable resource for understanding her cultural impact.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Angelos Bollas
2. The Spatial De-turn? (Non)representation of Place and Emerging Spaces in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
Marion Bourdeau
3. “An Intimacy as Close as Between the Sea and the Strand”: The Boundary between World and Body in Sally Rooney’s Normal People
Dilek Öztürk Yağcı
4. A Feminist Reading of Sally Rooney’s Novels Conversations with Friends, Normal People, and Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Pilar Iglesias-Aparicio
5. “Inside of a Glass Jar”: Visibilising Insidious Trauma in Conversations with Friends
Keah Amy Dixon and Laura Vázquez González
6. (De)Constructing Masculinities in Sally Rooney’s Novel Normal People and TV Series Adaptation
Elvira Aguilera García
7. Vulnerability and Female Sexuality in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018): Agent, Doer or Sufferer?
Sofía Alférez-Mendía
8. Queer World, Where Are You? The Im/Possibility of Queer Love in Sally Rooney’s Novels
Gloria García Pintueles
9. Identity, Sociality and Love in Sally Rooney’s Normal People: Exploring the Tensions Between Philosophies of Authenticity, Ethics and Community
Felicity Jane Octavia Smith
10. The Ethics of Vulnerability and Relationality in a Collapsing World in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
Natalia Jiménez-Pérez
11. ‘I Loved When He Was Available to Me Like This’: Modernisation and (Mis)communication
Marie O’Brien
12. Intimacy in Sally Rooney’s novels: ‘Being Alone with Her is Like Opening a Door Away from Normal Life and Then Closing It Behind Them’
Danielle O’Sullivan
13. Sex and Space in Contemporary Ireland: The Vicissitudes of Intimacy in Normal People
Caoimhe Higgins
14. Thoughtful Faces and Sleek Bodies: Thinness and the Politics of Consumption in the Fiction of Sally Rooney
Paddy Brennan
15. “It was just period pain”: Endometriosis as a Marker of Sexual Difference and Desirability in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends
Sara Romero Otero
16. A Transmodern Reading of Sally Rooney’s Normal People: Millennial Vulnerabilities and the Paradox of Interconnectedness
Elsa Adán-Hernández
17. Bleeding in the Pews: Partial Faith in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You
Nora Kirkham
18. Changing Spaces in the Anthropocene: Solastalgia and the Search for Hope in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
Melina Pereira Savi and Alinne Fernandes
19. “There Are a Lot of White People Here”: Race, Class and Relationality in the Screen Adaptations of Normal People and Conversations with Friends
Zélie Asava
20. Hegemonic and Vulnerable Masculinities in Sally Rooney’s Normal People
Kübra Özermiş
21. Sally Rooney’s Novels: The Aesthetics of the Contemporary Irish Bildungsroman
Alicia Muro and María Amor Barros-del Río
22. The Dark Turn of Chick Lit in Sally Rooney’s Works
Eva Marie Heimers
Angelos Bollas is an independent scholar focusing on literature, sociology, education, and cultural studies while working as Education Development Specialist at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He has studied English, sociology, education, and cultural studies at BA, MA, and PhD levels in Greece, the UK, and Ireland. He is the author of Contemporary Irish Masculinities: Male Homosociality in Sally Rooney’s Novels (2024), Sexualised Governmentalities: Critical Perspectives on Homosexism (2024), and Fashionable Queerness: Straight Appropriation of Queer Fashion (2024). He recently co-edited HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society (2024).