Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O’Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages—considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms—Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.
Máiréad Nic Craith
The Vanishing World of The Islandman [PDF ebook]
Narrative and Nostalgia
The Vanishing World of The Islandman [PDF ebook]
Narrative and Nostalgia
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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 187 ● ISBN 9783030257750 ● 文件大小 2.5 MB ● 出版者 Springer International Publishing ● 市 Cham ● 国家 CH ● 发布时间 2019 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7258666 ● 复制保护 社会DRM