Exploring the now and here of Irish literature: A review of The Routledge Companion To Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing (2024)

Авторы

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/8er7pp12

Ключевые слова:

Contemporary Irish Literature, Celtic language, Irish Theatre, Irish poetry, irish literature

Аннотация

The review presents a short description of each one of the contributions made to the collection. The book aims to present multiple approaches, reflecting on Ireland's traditional cultural themes in the current literary landscape. Divided into four sections, three dedicated to the genres of narrative, poetry, and theatre, as well as one dedicated to new voices and rising literary genres, the book is composed of 35 essays covering all the names that have stood out in the past few decades in Irish bookshops and at readers' hands, signed by specialists from all areas.

Биография автора

  • Esther Borges, Universidade de São Paulo

    Is a PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo. Their dissertation focuses on Queer Diaspora in Irish literature, more specifically in the works of Adiba Jaigirdar, and is financed by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). She has done research internships in both University College Dublin (2024) and National University of Maynooth (2025). She has a bachelor's with a teaching degree in English language, literature and linguistics by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. They received a masters title from the University of São Paulo in 2021, for her dissertation titled "The Self in the Other: an analysis of Stir-Fry by Emma Donoghue",financed by the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES). She is an associate member of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies, (ABEI), the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) and the Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses (AEDEI). They are also part of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Sub-Committee of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), the current financial director of ABEI and the Post-Graduate representative for IASIL. Her main areas of research interest are Queer and migration studies, the role of food and the overlap of forms of Otherness and how those are represented in contemporary literature.

Библиографические ссылки

Fogarty, Anne & O’Brien, Eugene (editors). The Routledge Companion To Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing. Routledge, December 2024, pp. 484. ISBN 9781032304960.

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Опубликован

2025-12-03

Выпуск

Том 27 № 1 (2025): ABEI Journal 27.1 – Special Issue 50 Years of Diplomatic Relations Between Brazil and Ireland

Раздел

Reviews

Лицензия

Copyright (c) 2025 Esther Borges

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Как цитировать

Borges, E. (2025). Exploring the now and here of Irish literature: A review of The Routledge Companion To Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing (2024). ABEI Journal, 27(1), 265-272. https://doi.org/10.11606/8er7pp12

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