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Máiréad Nic Craith 
The Vanishing World of The Islandman 
Narrative and Nostalgia

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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.


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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Lure of the Primitive.- 2. Writing the Past.- 3. Narrative and Voice.- 4. Translating Place.- 5. Native American and Indigenous Irish Narratives.- 6. A Continental Epic.- 7. Museum and Memoir.- 8. Irish-American Networks.

Über den Autor

Máiréad Nic Craith is Professor and Chair in Cultural Heritage and Anthropological Studies and Director of the Intercultural Centre at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 187 ● ISBN 9783030257750 ● Dateigröße 2.5 MB ● Verlag Springer International Publishing ● Ort Cham ● Land CH ● Erscheinungsjahr 2019 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7258666 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM

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