[Un]succesful "metabolization" of the Northern Irish War: The post-troubles trauma in Glenn Patterson's writing
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2009
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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Northern Irish literature of the last decade illustrates an arduous effort of the Ulster men to break
down the walls of political and cultural partition. Yet, even though the Northern Irish community
tends to present itself in terms of a variety of images, the ultimate impression is that the recent
novelistic and critical productions resonate with past antagonisms and the post-Troubles trauma.
It is so since the North, as many a scholar indicates, is as if fated to continually recompose its
past. This paper then, set against the background of the civil war experiences, discusses Glenn
Patterson’s excavation of individual and collective memories which prove that the dead are constantly
materializing in today’s Northern Irish reality. Hence, Glenn Patterson’s accumulation of
voices by means of which the author ponders over the politics of memory and imparts knowledge
of the characters who, on a long journey out of the darkness into the space of light, find some
vestiges of the old conflicts still echoing and rather difficult to hush up.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 45.1 (2009), pp. 163-173
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0081-6272