RT Book, Section
T1 Introduction: Silences that Speak
A1 Caneda Cabrera, M. Teresa
A1 Carregal Romero, José
AB This chapter provides a critical overview and a theoretical introduction to Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Silences that Speak. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives and considerations on silence through a broad diversity of themes and functions, this introductory essay reclaims an unprecedented attentiveness to the unspoken in today’s Irish fiction. The chapter argues that in Irish contemporary writing silence features as multivalent and multifaceted: it can function as a form of resistance, a strategy of defiance, empowerment and emancipation, but also a way of covering up stories which remain untold and invisible, thus distorting or directly concealing inconvenient truths from the public eye. Ultimately, as the book itself demonstrates, for contemporary Irish writers, the unspoken is not just a constraint but a productive site of enquiry, a silence that “speaks”.
PB Springer
SN 978-3-031-30454-5
SN 978-3-031-30455-2 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22610
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22610
LA eng
NO Caneda-Cabrera, M.T., Carregal-Romero, J. (2023). Introduction: Silences that Speak. In: Caneda-Cabrera, M.T., Carregal-Romero, J. (eds) Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30455-2_1
NO The research for this chapter was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the European Regional Development Fund and the Spanish Research Agency through the Research Projects “INTRUTHS Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction” FFI2017-84619-P AEI/FEDER, UE and “INTRUTHS 2: Articulations of Individual and Communal Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Irish Writing” PID2020-114776GB-I00 MCIN/AEI.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026