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Title: | "Telling the truth about time" : The Importance of Local Rootedness in Paula Meehan's Poetry (2010) |
Authors: | Pilar VILLAR ARGAIZ, Author |
Material Type: | Article |
In : | Etudes irlandaises (vol 35 n 1 2010) |
Article on page: | p. 103-115 |
Languages: | English |
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Abstract: | This article stresses the importance of the local in Paula Meehan's work, showing how her perception of Irishness is firmly informed, at its heart, by a specific cultural history: that of her childhood, her (male and female) ancestors and her under-class community. It will try to answer one essential question that inevitably arises when dealing with Meehan's attempt to recall the past: how to decipher communal identity in the face of the all-homogenizing tendencies of globalization? This article addresses this first question, by highlighting the difficulties Meehan encounters in recalling the past. As we will see, her poetry reflects the often strained relation between globalization and cultural history, and the underestimation or scepticism in today's world as regards the cultural importance of our ancestors. Meehan celebrates a rich cultural past of ancestral oral traditions, dreams and myths, cultural mediums which have been devalued in a modern, technical and utterly disenchanted world |
Publishing country : | France |
Place of publication : | Rennes |
Statement of responsibility : | Pilar Villar Argaiz |
Collection : | Médiathèque |