In this Book
- Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Syracuse University Press
- Series: Irish Studies
summary
The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English, nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the development of an Irish anticolonial consciousness and in the identity formation of transatlantic Irish communities. In Relocated Memories, Corporaal challenges the persistent assumption that the first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a pervasive silence on the catastrophe. Discussing works by well-known authors such as William Carleton and Anthony Trollope as well as more obscure texts by, among others, Dillon O’Brien and Susanna Meredith, Corporaal charts the reconfigurations of memory in fiction across generations and national borders.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-21
- 1 Displacing the Famine
- pp. 22-53
- 2 Spectacles of Starvation
- pp. 54-80
- 3 Beyond Boundaries
- pp. 81-118
- 4 From Wasteland to Paradise Regained
- pp. 119-156
- 5 Ruins of the Past
- pp. 157-180
- 6 Recollections of (Re)migration
- pp. 181-220
- Conclusion
- pp. 221-228
- Bibliography
- pp. 263-292
- About the Author
- pp. 303-304
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815653981
Related ISBN(s)
9780815635130
MARC Record
OCLC
976423972
Launched on MUSE
2017-05-10
Language
English
Open Access
No