Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary by M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera PAPERBACK

Springer International Publishing AG

Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish FictionSilences that Speak\nAuthor(s): M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera, Jos Carregal-Romero\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031304576, 978-3031304576\nSynopsis\nThis Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Irelands history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced ""