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Description for Memory Ireland
Hardcover. Editor(s): Frawley, Oona. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black-&-white illustration, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term ""memory"" in recent decades, its definition remains enigmatic. Does cultural memory rely on the memories of individuals, or does it take shape beyond the borders of the individual mind? Cultural memory has garnered particular attention within Irish studies. With its trauma-filled history and sizable global diaspora, Ireland presents an ideal subject for work in this vein. What do stereotypes of Irish memory—as extensive, unforgiving, begrudging, but also blank on particular, usually traumatic, subjects—reveal about the ways in which cultural remembrance works in contemporary Irish culture and in Irish diasporic culture? ... Read more
Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term ""memory"" in recent decades, its definition remains enigmatic. Does cultural memory rely on the memories of individuals, or does it take shape beyond the borders of the individual mind? Cultural memory has garnered particular attention within Irish studies. With its trauma-filled history and sizable global diaspora, Ireland presents an ideal subject for work in this vein. What do stereotypes of Irish memory—as extensive, unforgiving, begrudging, but also blank on particular, usually traumatic, subjects—reveal about the ways in which cultural remembrance works in contemporary Irish culture and in Irish diasporic culture? ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Irish Studies
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632504
SKU
V9780815632504
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About
Oona Frawley is a lecturer in the Department of English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is the author of Irish Pastoral: Nostalgia in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature and the editor of contributed volumes on James Joyce and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.
Reviews for Memory Ireland
This first of four volumes explores the replacement of chronological historiography with a more fluid, less rigid approach that investigates what is remembered from the Irish past. Memory Ireland inaugurates a careful investigation of ‘the conception of Irish cultural memory’ through the multiple lenses provided by disparate fields: literature most prominently, but also religion, sociology, political science, and archaeology. This ... Read more