Coercive Confinement and Irish Languages: Ó Cadhain, Behan, Heaney, Okorie
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10451692" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10451692 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v5i2.3073" target="_blank" >10.32803/rise.v5i2.3073</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Coercive Confinement and Irish Languages: Ó Cadhain, Behan, Heaney, Okorie
Original language description
This article explores the consequences that the conditions of incarceration have on the linguistic make-up of literary texts that result from or reflect on them. Due to the island's colonial history, Ireland has a rich canon of confinement literature, but - largely as a result of this very same history - these literary works have often been studied through a binary cultural lens, reinforcing what Declan Kiberd has termed the 'quarantine' of Ireland's literatures, with English kept on one side of the language fence, Irish on the other. Drawing on Ian O'Donnell and Eoin O'Sullivan's concept of 'coercive confinement' in order to include carceral institutions outside the formal criminal justice system, this article examines four case studies in which Irish writers cross the borders of language quarantine when writing about coercive confinement, focusing on selected works by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Brendan Behan, Seamus Heaney and Melatu Uche Okorie. Just as the conditions of confinement that gave rise to these works differ widely, so too do the literary strategies employed to represent or respond to these situations of incarceration. While Ireland's literary languages have historically existed in quarantine, we hope to show that this linguistic confinement is often breached by Irish writers responding to actual instances of imprisonment.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe
ISSN
2398-7685
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Volume of the periodical
5
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
BE - BELGIUM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
19-37
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