Máiréad Nic Craith

The Vanishing World of The Islandman

Narrative and Nostalgia

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman's century-old life-story to readers in several languages-considering the memoir's global reception in human, literary and artistic terms-Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain's writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressedin different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-25774-3
• 1st ed. 2020
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9783030257743
• ISBN-10: 3030257746
• Artikelnr.: 56956171

Autorenporträt

Máiréad Nic Craith is Professor and Chair in Cultural Heritage and Anthropological Studies and Director of the Intercultural Centre at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Lure of the Primitive.- 2. Writing the Past.- 3. Narrative and Voice.- 4. Translating Place.- 5. Native American and Indigenous Irish Narratives.- 6. A Continental Epic.- 7. Museum and Memoir.- 8. Irish-American Networks.

Rezensionen

"Máiread Nic Craith shows great sensitivity towards her field. She manages to go well beyond a traditionalist or nostalgic interpretation of Tomas's memoir. She eventually shows that different sort of nostalgias are expressed in memoirs, at the intersection between a more local perspective and more external visions." (Laurent Sébastien Fournier, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Vol. 30 (1), 2021)