Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature

Madalina Armie earned a master’s degree in English language and literature (2014) from the University of Almería. She completed her PhD on the contemporary Irish short story at the turn of the twenty-first century at the University of Almería (2019), for which she obtained the EIDUAL Dissertation Award 2019 for Best Doctoral Dissertation (2021) and the honorary second prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Studies for Equality and the Fight against Gender Violence of the University of Almeria (2022). Her current areas of research include the contemporary Irish short story and Irish women’s writing. She has published articles and reviews in international journals, such as Irish Studies Review, Estudios Irlandeses, Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and Studi Irlandesi. Armie is the author of the monograph The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: Tradition, Society and Modernity also published by Routledge. She is currently teaching at the University of Almeria, Spain. Veronica Membrive completed her PhD at the University of Almería (2017) on Irish travel writers in Spain during the twentieth century. She has published articles and book chapters on Walter Starkie, Kate O’Brien, Aidan Higgins, Pearse Hutchison and their travels in Spain. She is currently teaching English at the University of Almería. She has been awarded the International George Campbell Award for her research on Hiberno-Spanish cultural relations (University of Málaga, 2018).

MADALINA ARMIE AND VERÓNICA MEMBRIVE

Introduction

PART I – ESSAYS

JESSICA ALIAGA-LAVRIJSEN

University of Zaragoza, Spain






Trauma, Reproduction and Breeding in Catherine Brophy’s Dark Paradise
BURCU GÜLÜM TEKIN

University of Zaragoza, Spain




Different Kinds of Love: Silenced Women in Leland Bardwell’s Short Fiction
ELENA CANTUESO URBANO AND MARÍA ISABEL ROMERO RUIZ

University of Málaga, Spain




Trauma after a Life of Torture in Irish Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Survivors’ Testimonies and Patricia Burke-Brogan’s Stained Glass at Samhain
PAULA ROMO-MAYOR

University of Zaragoza, Spain




Shattering the Moulds of Tradition: The Role of Women in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Rachel Seiffert’s The Walk Home
MELANIA TERRAZAS

University of La Rioja, Spain




Representations of Trauma, Memory and the Silencing of Irish Women: Storytelling in Emer Martin’s The Cruelty Men
F.B. SCHÜRMANN

University College Dublin (UCD), School of English, Drama, and Film, Ireland




Exposition of a Half-formed System: Trauma and Other Matters in Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing


ALICIA MURO

University of La Rioja, Spain




Damaged Women: Trauma, Shame and Silence in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People
KAYLA FANNING

Concordia University, Canada




Conditions of Homecoming: Self-Care and Anticipation in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours and The Surface Breaks
ASIER ALTUNA-GARCÍA DE SALAZAR

University of Deusto, Spain




Confronting Female Unspeakable Truths in Ireland: Donal Ryan’s Strange Flowers
MAYRON ESTEFAN CANTILLO-LUCUARA

University of Valencia, Spain




Emma Donoghue’s Hood and the Aesthetics of Existential Claustrophobia: From Traumatic Self-Retreat to Uncloseted Grief
MARÍA GAVIÑA-COSTERO

University of Valencia, Spain




Don’t Tell Them: The Strategy of Silence in Anna Burns’ Milkman


PART 2. PIECES OF CREATIVE WRITING

CATHERINE DUNNE




A Good Enough Mother
Unpublished literary piece of novel



MIA GALLAGHER




Dirty Irish Punk
Unpublished literary piece of novel



LIA MILLS




"Flight"

Reissued short story