The Vanishing World of The Islandman: Narrative and Nostalgia

di Máiréad Nic Craith (Autore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

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, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.

• Autore: Máiréad Nic Craith
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 187 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783030257743

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