Ireland and dysfunction
Subtitle: critical explorations in literature and film
By: edited by Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781443812030
Subjects: English literature; Irish authors; History and criticism; Crises in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; In literature; In motion pictures
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.