The Vanishing World of The Islandman: Narrative and Nostalgia 1st edition 2020 Edition Máiréad Nic Craith

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• ISBN 10: 3030257754
• ISBN 13: 9783030257750
• Author: Máiréad Nic Craith

Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O’Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages – considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms – Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.

Table contents: 

1. The Lure of the Primitive

2. Writing the Past

3. Narrative and Voice

4. Translating Place

5. Native American and Indigenous Irish Narratives

6. A Continental Epic

7. Museum and Memoir

8. Irish-American Networks

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