Recent Contributions to the Irish Novel by Sara Baume, Anna Burns and Eleanor O’Reilly: On Language, Words and Wordlessness
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Palabras clave

novela irlandesa
escritoras irlandesas
Sara Baume
Anna Burns
Eleanor O'Reilly

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Estévez-Saá, M. (2020). Recent Contributions to the Irish Novel by Sara Baume, Anna Burns and Eleanor O’Reilly: On Language, Words and Wordlessness. Oceánide, 13, 85-94. https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v13i.44

Resumen

El objetivo de la presente contribución es el estudio de tres jóvenes escritoras irlandesas que han aportado, en los últimos tres años, nuevas muestras de la inagotable capacidad de los autores irlandeses a la hora de experimentar con el género de la novela. "A Line Made by Walking" (2017) de Sara Baume, "Milkman" (2018) de Anna Burns y "m for mammy" (2019) de Eleanor O’Reilly, son tres ejemplos representativos del potencial del género de la novela en manos de autoras irlandesas. Aunque por su complejidad e interés cada una de las novelas merece un estudio individualizado, un análisis conjunto nos permite calibrar el brillante momento que está experimentando la novela en la
literatura irlandesa especialmente de autoría femenina.
Las tres novelas objeto de estudio tratan crisis identitarias, representan a sus protagonistas luchando contra la sociedad y sus estructuras, bien sea la familia, la comunidad, el mundo del arte, la naturaleza o la política. Más aún, las tres autoras han sido capaces de proponer diferentes estilos narrativos, técnicas e incluso finales, que les permitiesen reproducir la complejidad de los temas tratados así como representar la inestable condición de sus protagonistas. Además, Baume, Burns y O’Reilly han optado significativamente por protagonistas femeninas con aspiraciones artísticas o intelectuales que les facilitan dotar a sus respectivas narraciones de reflexiones de corte metaliterario sobre las posibilidades así como los límites del lenguaje, las palabras o la ausencia de las mismas.

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