Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870

The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English, nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the development of an Irish anticolonial consciousness and in the identity formation of transatlantic Irish communities. In Relocated Memories, Corporaal challenges the persistent assumption that the first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a pervasive silence on the catastrophe. Discussing works by well-known authors such as William Carleton and Anthony Trollope as well as more obscure texts by, among others, Dillon O'Brien and Susanna Meredith, Corporaal charts the reconfigurations of memory in fiction across generations and national borders.

Author: Marguerite Corporaal
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 04/24/2017
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.81h x 6.02w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780815635130

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2017

About the Author
Marguérite Corporaal is associate professor of English at Radboud University in the Netherlands. She is the coeditor of Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century.