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Book SynopsisSounding the Margins is the second of two publications to emerge from the highly successful AFIS conference hosted by the Université de Lille in 2019. Concentrating on the literary manifestations of marginality in Ireland and France, the essays treat of various texts that demonstrate the extent to which marginality is a recurring trope. This may well be because writers tend to situate themselves at a distance from the centre or status quo in their desire to maintain a certain degree of artistic objectivity. But it is also the case that literary practitioners tend to identify more easily with others living on the margins, either through choice or circumstances. The collection is a mixture of comparative studies and essays on individual authors but, in all cases, marginality is presented as a liberating experience once it is freely chosen and embraced.
Table of ContentsContents: Engaging the Margins – Grace Neville: Ça mange comme les Irlandais des pommes de terre: The Great Irish Famine Comes in from the Margins in French Literature – Joseph Heininger: Representing the Marginalized in Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Chosen Garden, Globe and The Five Quintets: Perspectives on Jean Vanier and Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Eamon Maher: Ministering on the Margins: Fictional Priests in the Work of Jean Sulivan and Colum McCann – Joan Dargan: Seeing and Surveillance: Periscope and Watchtower in Susan Howe and Paul Muldoon – Voicing the Margins – Sylvie Mikowski: Space, Place and the Non-human in Sara Baume’s Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2016) – Marie Mianowski: Margins and Marginalities in Ireland: Being Jewish and Irish in Ruth Gilligan’s Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan – Helen Penet: Hugo Hamilton’s Hand in the Fire: Exploring Ireland’s Marginalities through the Prism of Immigration – Eugene O’Brien: Paul Howard and the Celtic Tiger: A Voice from the «Morgins» – Pilar Villar-Argáiz: The Ethical Implications of Irish Transcultural Fiction: Representations of the Immigrant in Roisín O’Donnell’s Wild Quiet and Donal Ryan’s From a Low and Quiet Sea.
