Irish Shame

A Literary Reckoning

Seán Kennedy, Joseph Valente (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4691-1 (ISBN)

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The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame.

Shame has haunted Ireland since the inception of Irishness itself. As such, it has come to seem an ineluctable modality of Irish life. In fact, the contours of Irish shame have evolved over time, shifting with alterations in their colonial predicament, and in their response, whether complicit or resistant, to economic, political, and cultural dispossession. Irish Shame offers an anatomy of that condition. In twelve essays, it traces the ethnic, religious, biopolitical, psychosocial and neurodiverse parameters of shame as a force in Irish life.

Seán Kennedy is Coordinator of Irish Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. Joseph Valente is Distinguished Professor of English and Disability Studies at SUNY, Buffalo.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Writing Irish Shame
Seán Kennedy and Joseph Valente

Part I. Ethnic Shame
1. Colonial Emasculation in Early Modern Irish Poetry: From Shame to Humiliation
Sarah E. McKibben
2. Young Ireland, Slavery and the Gender of Shame
Marjorie Howes

Part II. Religious Shame
3. Recovering from Catholicism: The Internalisation Problem in Joyce
Seán Kennedy
4. Let Us Prey: Child Sex Abuse and Catholic Bildung
Joseph Valente

Part III. Biopolitical Shame
5. Laundering Complicity: Experimental Drama and the Temporalities of Irish Shame
Claire Bracken
6. Shame and the Breastfeeding Mother in Ireland
Abby Bender
7. "you: are you complicit?" Shame, Trauma and Gender in Susanah Dickey’s Tennis Lessons
Alison Garden

Part IV. Shame and Disability
8. Disability, Embodiment and Shame in Caitriona Lally's Eggshells
Kathleen Costello-Sullivan
9. "that old shame trick": Mothering, Trauma and Neurodiversity in Emilie Pine’s Ruth & Pen
Moynagh Sullivan

Part V. Psychoanlaytic Shame
10. The Shame of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes
Eve Watson
8. "then die of shame": Reading Beckett’s Not I with Lacan
Alexandra Poulain

Part VI. Shame’s Joyce
12. Flirting with Shame: Performing Narration in Ulysses
Kezia Whiting

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-3995-4691-0 / 1399546910
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-4691-1 / 9781399546911
Zustand	Neuware