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dc.contributor.authorRuohomäki, Jyrki
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-28T07:01:46Z
dc.date.available2013-11-28T07:01:46Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationRuohomäki, J. (2013). A tipper full of skinned limbs : fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles. <em>J@rgonia</em>, 11 (22), 17-36. Retrieved from <a href="http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201311272669"> http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201311272669</a>
dc.identifier.otheroai:jykdok.linneanet.fi:1288087
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/42534
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses the potential of a fictional story, a novel, to challenge political narratives in a divided society. I will analyse three novels set during the ”Troubles” (1960s-1998) in Northern Ireland, looking at the ways in which each novel navigates the narrow space between Northern Irish unionism and nationalism, the two dominant narratives in Northern Ireland. I will read the novels politically, interpreting them as rhetorical narratives holding the power to challenge commonplace assumptions. I will apply the ideas put forward by James Phelan concerning the inherent rhetorical nature of narrative in fiction. I will also present Ann Rigney’s concept of cultural memory as an analytical tool for analysing the way in which memory and history have been politicised and how the material analysed offers a critique of that politicisation. I will contextualise the novels in the political, cultural and historiographic debates and political transformations in Northern Ireland. The article concludes that the three novels all seek to challenge and question the political narratives of Northern Ireland profoundly. They engage in a rhetorical act through which commonplace assumptions about the political conflict in Northern Ireland, its premises and its solutions, are presented in a new and challenging way.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherHistorian ja etnologian laitoksen tutkijat ry, Jyväskylän yliopisto
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJ@rgonia
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.subject.otherkulttuurin muisti
dc.titleA tipper full of skinned limbs : fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201311272669
dc.relation.issn1459-305X
dc.relation.numberinseries22
dc.relation.volume11
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© Ruohomäki, 2013. Julkaistu Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. International -lisenssillä.
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dc.subject.yso1960-1998
dc.subject.ysoPohjois-Irlannin levottomuudet
dc.subject.ysokaunokirjallisuus
dc.subject.ysofiktio
dc.subject.ysokulttuuriperintö
dc.subject.ysopoliittinen kulttuuri
dc.subject.ysoTroubles
dc.subject.ysoFiction
dc.subject.ysoCultural memory
dc.subject.ysoPolitics of memory
dc.subject.ysoNorthern Ireland
dc.subject.ysoPohjois-Irlanti
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dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


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