Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature

MADALINA ARMIE AND VERONICA MEMBRIVE

Introduction

PART I - ESSAYS

JESSICA ALIAGA-LAVRIJSEN

University of Zaragoza, Spain






Trauma, Reproduction and Breeding in Catherine Brophy's Dark Paradise
BURCU GUELUEM TEKIN

University of Zaragoza, Spain




Different Kinds of Love: Silenced Women in Leland Bardwell's Short Fiction
ELENA CANTUESO URBANO AND MARIA ISABEL ROMERO RUIZ

University of Malaga, Spain




Trauma after a Life of Torture in Irish Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Survivors' Testimonies and Patricia Burke-Brogan's Stained Glass at Samhain
PAULA ROMO-MAYOR

University of Zaragoza, Spain




Shattering the Moulds of Tradition: The Role of Women in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Rachel Seiffert's The Walk Home
MELANIA TERRAZAS

University of La Rioja, Spain




Representations of Trauma, Memory and the Silencing of Irish Women: Storytelling in Emer Martin's The Cruelty Men
F.B. SCHUERMANN

University College Dublin (UCD), School of English, Drama, and Film, Ireland




Exposition of a Half-formed System: Trauma and Other Matters in Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing


ALICIA MURO

University of La Rioja, Spain




Damaged Women: Trauma, Shame and Silence in Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Normal People
KAYLA FANNING

Concordia University, Canada




Conditions of Homecoming: Self-Care and Anticipation in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours and The Surface Breaks
ASIER ALTUNA-GARCIA DE SALAZAR

University of Deusto, Spain




Confronting Female Unspeakable Truths in Ireland: Donal Ryan's Strange Flowers
MAYRON ESTEFAN CANTILLO-LUCUARA

University of Valencia, Spain




Emma Donoghue's Hood and the Aesthetics of Existential Claustrophobia: From Traumatic Self-Retreat to Uncloseted Grief
MARIA GAVINA-COSTERO

University of Valencia, Spain




Don't Tell Them: The Strategy of Silence in Anna Burns' Milkman


PART 2. PIECES OF CREATIVE WRITING

CATHERINE DUNNE




A Good Enough Mother
Unpublished literary piece of novel



MIA GALLAGHER




Dirty Irish Punk
Unpublished literary piece of novel



LIA MILLS




"Flight"

Reissued short story