RT Journal Article
T1 "So this was what being alone was like": Articulations of Vulnerability in Colm Tóibín's Nora Webster
A1 Carregal Romero, José
AB Set in 1960s Catholic Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster (2014) foregrounds the inherent and pathogenic vulnerabilities of widowhood –from bereavement to economic precarity and the culture of grief for widows– in the figure of its eponymous protagonist. Drawing on recent research on vulnerability theory, this study adopts an understanding of vulnerability not as perpetual injury or victimhood, but as a site of potential transformation, which impels Tóibín’s protagonist to relate toherself and others differently in order to restore a sense of security and well-being. This study therefore details the ways in which Tóibín dramatises Nora’s progression towards increasedautonomy, and how her vulnerability initiates a path towards resilience and self-reinvention.
PB Taylor and Francis Group
SN 0013-838X
SN 1744-4217 (electrónico)
YR 2024
FD 2024-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24088
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24088
LA eng
NO Carregal-Romero, J. (2024). “So This was what Being Alone was like”: Articulations of Vulnerability in Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster. English Studies, 105(4), 606–619. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2330826
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026