A Map of Things Known and Lost in Anne Enright’s The Green Road

dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemágl
dc.contributor.authorEstévez Saá, Margarita
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-21T01:12:14Z
dc.date.available2017-10-21T01:12:14Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe present contribution interprets Anne Enright’s most recent novel, The Green Road (2015), as the story of two decades of an Irish family that is used by the writer to offer an alternative fictional rendering of the history of Ireland and the Irish from the 1980s till the early twenty-first century, as well as, formally speaking, a further contribution to the Irish writers’ penchant for destabilizing the conventions of a literary genre too frequently associated with British settlement and stability (Eagleton 1995) and with nineteenth-century realism (Hand 2011); and, therefore, recurrently considered as unable to apprehend the disruptive and multifaceted condition of Ireland and the Irish. Enright goes from the particular to the universal: the story of the Madigans serves to cover the recent history of Ireland as well as to deal with concerns such as motherhood, religion, sex, aging depression, illness, materialism and migrations, among others. Formally speaking, Enright’s latest novel is undoubtedly the most daring and innovative text in her already vast literary output and can and should be interpreted as the author’s most remarkable contribution to a literary genre with which Irish writers have not ceased to experimentgl
dc.description.abstractLa presente contribución interpreta la novela de Anne Enright, The Green Road (2015), como el relato de una familia irlandesa, que a su vez ofrece un versión alternativa de la historia de Irlanda y de los irlandeses desde los años 80 hasta principios del siglo XXI, así como, en términos formales, una muestra más de cómo los escritores irlandeses desestabilizan las convenciones de un género literario tradicionalmente asociado con la estabilidad británica (Eagleton 1995), y el realismo literario del siglo XIX (Hand 2011); y, en consecuencia, recurrentemente considerado como incapaz de aprehender la compleja e inestable condición de Irlanda. Enright va de lo particular a lo universal: el relato de la familia Madigan sirve a la autora para cubrir la historia reciente de Irlanda así como para tratar temas relevantes en la sociedad contemporánea como la maternidad, la religión, el sexo, la vejez, la depresión, la enfermedad, el materialismo, o las migraciones. La última novela de la escritora es, sin duda, el texto más osado e innovador en su ya dilatada trayectoria literaria, y debe ser interpretado como su contribución más destacada a un género literario con el que los escritores irlandeses no han cesado de experimentargl
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dc.description.sponsorshipThis essay is part of a wider research funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (FEM2015-66937-P)gl
dc.identifier.citationMargarita Estévez-Saá, 'A Map of Things Known and Lost in Anne Enright’s The Green Road' , Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, (11), (2016), 44-55gl
dc.identifier.doi10.24162/EI2016-6081
dc.identifier.issn1699-311X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10347/15950
dc.language.isoenggl
dc.publisherAsociación Española de Estudios Irlandesesgl
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/FEM2015-66937-P/ES/ECO-FICCIONES: DISCURSOS EMERGENTES SOBRE MUJER Y NATURALEZA EN GALICIA E IRLANDA
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.24162/EI2016-6081gl
dc.rights© 2016 by Margarita Estévez-Saá. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged for access. CC BY-NCgl
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessgl
dc.subjectAnne Enrightgl
dc.subjectContemporary societygl
dc.subjectFamilygl
dc.subjectIrish historygl
dc.subjectIrish novelsgl
dc.subjectThe Green Roadgl
dc.subjectFamiliagl
dc.subjectSociedad contemporáneagl
dc.subjectHistoria de Irlandagl
dc.subjectNovela irlandesagl
dc.titleA Map of Things Known and Lost in Anne Enright’s The Green Roadgl
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