Passado, segredo e ausência em The Historians, de Eavan Boland

Autores

  • Pilar Villar-Argáiz University of Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197753

Palavras-chave:

Passado, Presente, Segredos, Eavan Boland, The Historians

Resumo

Este artigo baseia-se no último volume de poesia de Eavan Boland, The Historians, publicado postumamente em outubro de 2020. Examinando em detalhes alguns poemas retirados da primeira sequência de sua coletânea, investigarei como Boland retoma antigas preocupações presentes em seu trabalho, particularmente as tensões entre revelação e ocultação, velamento e desvelamento, uma história transparente e um passado obscuro. Como pretendo demonstrar, ao imaginar o passado, Boland incorpora constantes rupturas e interrupções, revelando que há, em seu ato de reimaginação poética, detalhes que resistem a ser incorporados em uma narrativa linear e contínua. Para estudar esse aspecto, baseio-me em acadêmicos reconhecidos, como como Abbott (2013), Brooks (1992), Calinescu (1994) e Attridge (2021), que investigam o papel que o mistério, os segredos e o incognoscível desempenham na construção de sequências narrativas. Em particular, debruço-me sobre diferentes técnicas empregadas por Boland: 1) uso deliberado da dicção simples e não-ornamental, destacando ainda mais a presença da ausência; 2) ruptura de narrativas lineares pela ampliação e estreitamento da perspectiva e escopo, e 3) divulgação tardia de “segredos”. Por meio de todos esses dispositivos formais e estilísticos, Boland mostra que o sigilo é uma qualidade intrínseca ao passado.

Biografia do Autor

  • Pilar Villar-Argáiz, University of Granada

    Pilar Villar-Argáiz is a senior lecturer of British and Irish Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Granada and the General Editor of the major series “Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and Culture” in Edward Everett Root Publishers. She is the author of the books Eavan Boland’s Evolution as an Irish Woman Poet: An Outsider within an Outsider’s Culture (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007) and The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading (Academica Press, 2008). She has published extensively on contemporary Irish poetry and fiction, in relation to questions of gender, race, migration and interculturality. Her edited collections include Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature (Manchester University Press, 2014), Irishness on the Margins: Minority and Dissident Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021), the special issue of Irish Studies Review (entitled “Irish Multiculturalism in Crisis”, co-edited with Jason King, 2015), and the special issue of Nordic Irish Studies (entitled “Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland”, 2016). Villar-Argáiz is currently the Chairperson of AEDEI (the Spanish Association for Irish Studies) and Member of the Executive Board of EFACIS (the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies).  

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Publicado

2021-05-23

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v. 23 n. 2 (2021): ABEI Journal 23.2 Special Issue Eavan Boland — In Her Many Images

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Copyright (c) 2021 Pilar Villar-Argáiz

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Villar-Argáiz, P. (2021). Passado, segredo e ausência em The Historians, de Eavan Boland. ABEI Journal, 23(2), 69-87. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197753