{"product_id":"trauma-and-recovery-in-the-twenty-first-century-irish-novel-9780815635857","title":"Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century. Yet, just as Irish society has adopted a more direct and open approach to the past, so too have Irish authors evolved in their response to, and literary uses of, trauma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, Costello-Sullivan considers the ways in which the Irish canon not only represents an ongoing awareness of trauma as a literary and cultural force, but also how this representation has shifted since the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. While earlier trauma narratives center predominantly on the role of silence and the individual and\/or societal suffering that traumas induce, twenty-first-century Irish narratives increasingly turn from just the recognition of traumatic experiences toward exploring and representing the process of healing and recovery both structurally and narratively. Through a series of keenly observed close readings, Costello-Sullivan explores the work of Colm T ib n, John Banville, Anne Enright, Emma Donohue, Colum McCann, and Sebastian Barry. In highlighting the power of narrative to amend and address memory and trauma, Costello-Sullivan argues that these works reflect a movement beyond merely representing trauma toward also representing the\u003cbr\u003epossibility of recovery from it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathleen Costello-Sullivan is professor of modern Irish literature at Le Moyne College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMother\/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm T?ib?n\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eCarmilla: A Critical Edition\u003c\/i\u003e and a critical edition of \u003ci\u003ePoor Women by Norah Hoult\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845559030034,"sku":"9780815635857","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3177ca40-c1b4-4888-a135-f6624439508a.jpg?v=1737353785","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trauma-and-recovery-in-the-twenty-first-century-irish-novel-9780815635857","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}