What is it about?
This article analyses Donal Ryan’s representation of individual and community vulnerability in The Spinning Heart (2012), The Thing About December (2013) and From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018). This article examines Ryan’s special articulation of vulnerability in post-millennial Irish fiction. The analysis concludes that Ryan develops a taxonomy of vulnerability in his fiction that addresses a series of contexts and risk factors. Ryan represents the exposure of individuals and the community to social vulnerability in Ireland within the discourses of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath. Ryan’s fiction depicts dimensions of vulnerability affecting society at large and illustrates the overall failure to spread the success of the neoliberal Celtic Tiger equally.
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Donal Ryan's work is a unique fictional door to current social, political and economic issues in Ireland. HIs aesthetics intertwines with debates that illustrate how Ireland faces global matters today.
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Always great to approach Donal Ryan's work from so many perspectives. Ryan is a fundamental writer to discover many social, political and economic discourses in Ireland through literature.
ASIER ALTUNA GARCIA DE SALAZAR
Universidad de Deusto
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This page is a summary of: Vulnerability in Post-Millennial Irish Fiction: The Case of Donal Ryan, English Studies, April 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2023.2200323.
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