Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction McGlynn Mary M.
Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction McGlynn Mary M. While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction…
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Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction McGlynn Mary M.
While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors. Noting that these traits have the effect of diminishing human agency, blurring questions of responsibility, and emphasizing emotion over rationality, McGlynn argues that they reflect and respond to social and economic conditions during the global economic crisis and its aftermath of recession, austerity, and precarity.Rather than focusing on overt discussions of the crash and recession, McGlynn explores how the dominance of an economic worldview, including a pervasive climate of financialized discourse, In Broken Irelands, McGlynn examines Irish fiction of the post-crash era, addressing the proliferation of writing that downplays realistic and grammatical coherence.