REVIEWING FAMILY HISTORY: RECENT IRISH FICTION AND THE AVATARS OF MEMORY
REVIEWING FAMILY HISTORY: RECENT IRISH FICTION AND THE AVATARS OF MEMORY
Author(s): Virgil StanciuSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: fictional biography; imagined past; multi-layered form.
Summary/Abstract: Reviewing Family History: Recent Irish Fiction and the Avatars of Memory. This article endeavours to demonstrate that in the fiction produced by writers of Irish origin towards the end of the 20th century a discernible feature is the renewed interest in history, this time not in the great historical upheavals that have always fascinated novelists and playwrights, but rather in the “little histories”of individuals and families. Sewn together, these patches of family history can be seen as being an unofficial (fictional?) biography of the nation.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 63/2018
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 49-62
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English