dc.contributor.author | Ruohomäki, Jyrki | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-28T07:01:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-28T07:01:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ruohomäki, 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.other | oai:jykdok.linneanet.fi:1288087 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/42534 | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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 |
dc.format.extent | 20 sivua | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Historian ja etnologian laitoksen tutkijat ry, Jyväskylän yliopisto | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | J@rgonia | |
dc.rights | CC BY 4.0 | |
dc.subject.other | kulttuurin muisti | |
dc.title | A tipper full of skinned limbs : fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201311272669 | |
dc.relation.issn | 1459-305X | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 22 | |
dc.relation.volume | 11 | |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.copyright | © Ruohomäki, 2013. Julkaistu Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. International -lisenssillä. | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | |
dc.subject.yso | 1960-1998 | |
dc.subject.yso | Pohjois-Irlannin levottomuudet | |
dc.subject.yso | kaunokirjallisuus | |
dc.subject.yso | fiktio | |
dc.subject.yso | kulttuuriperintö | |
dc.subject.yso | poliittinen kulttuuri | |
dc.subject.yso | Troubles | |
dc.subject.yso | Fiction | |
dc.subject.yso | Cultural memory | |
dc.subject.yso | Politics of memory | |
dc.subject.yso | Northern Ireland | |
dc.subject.yso | Pohjois-Irlanti | |
dc.format.content | fulltext | |
dc.rights.url | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |