Perceptions of Contemporary Ireland in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Autores/as

  • Luci Collin Lavalle Federal University of Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v11i0.3655

Palabras clave:

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, language, identity, history, topographical, domestic space

Resumen

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Cork, 1942) has published various collections of poetry and presently holds a solid position among the most distinguished
Irish poets. The paper discusses the work of Ní Chuillenáin aiming at identifying aspects and references of contemporary Ireland in her poems. The main concern of the research is to analyze how Ní Chuilleanáin deals with some thematic elements such as language, identity, history, topographical and domestic space, politics and religion, rendering to the reader a special depiction of contemporary life in Ireland.

Biografía del autor/a

  • Luci Collin Lavalle, Federal University of Paraná

    LAVALLE, Luci Collin teaches Literatures in English and Literary Translation at the Federal University of Paraná and, presently, is engaged in post-doctoral studies at the
    University of São Paulo. As a writer she has published eleven books (poetry and fiction) and has participated in many international anthologies (USA, Germany, Argentina, Peru,
    Uruguay). As a translator she has published Re-habitar - Ensaios e poemas, by Gary Snyder (Azougue, 2005), Etnopoesia no Milênio, by Jerome Rothenberg (Azougue,
    2006), Contos Irlandeses do Início do Século XX (Travessa dos Editores, 2007) and Congo Negro, by Vachel Lindsey (Éblis, 2009).

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Publicado

2009-06-17

Número

Vol. 11 (2009): ABEI Journal 11

Sección

Poetry

Cómo citar

Lavalle, L. C. (2009). Perceptions of Contemporary Ireland in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. ABEI Journal, 11, 147-163. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v11i0.3655