Reverberations of Trauma: The Great War Revisited through Irish Women's Fiction
The participation of Irish soldiers and volunteers in the First World War under the British flag at the height of Irish nationalism has been considered as a shameful and traumatic event, and thus it has been politically, socially and culturally repressed, resulting in a historical amnesia that diame...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) |
| Repositorio: | Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/39639 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39639 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Irish literature First World War trauma theory memory studies postcolonial studies 620201 Crítica de textos 620202 Análisis literario 550402 Historia contemporánea |
| Sumario: | The participation of Irish soldiers and volunteers in the First World War under the British flag at the height of Irish nationalism has been considered as a shameful and traumatic event, and thus it has been politically, socially and culturally repressed, resulting in a historical amnesia that diametrically affected the identity of the Irish. This fact accounts for a sustained lack of an Irish canon of war literature, as well as of in-depth studies on the topic. This thesis aims to contribute to the reassessment of Ireland's involvement in the war by analyzing historical fiction written by women and published during the war’s centennial, while simultaneously exploring the strategies that literature employs to represent what remains repressed for being an inconvenient truth that conflicts with the official discourse. |
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