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• W2074083310 abstract "Reviewed by: Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon Miriam Mara Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon, ed. George Cusack and Sarah Goss . pp 342. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006. Distributed by International Specialized Booksellers Portland, OR. $32. During the years when Phythoptera Infestans blighted the potatoes upon which Irish tenant farmers subsisted, Ireland lost a million people to starvation and illness, and another million through immigration. Yet, critics like Terry Eagleton have claimed that this catastrophic event in Irish history is rarely treated in literature. Hungry Words: Images of the Famine in the Irish Canon questions the assumption that the traditional Irish canon has been silent on the Famine. This collection of essays is intended to augment readers' understanding of the ways famine appears in Irish work to become a presence that lurks beneath all formulations of Irish history and culture. Cusack and Goss organize the book chronologically with three sections, treating the initial period following the Famine, and the two halves of the twentieth century. They gather essays from a variety of genres, approaches, and conclusions, from each of these three distinct time periods, The editors note that even their title must be deconstructed in their attempt to re-evaluate canon at the same time they investigate famine, and trace the shared cultural dilemma behind these terms. In Part One: The Burden of Witness, the essays retrieve poets Ellen Mary Downing, Mary Anne Kelly, and their caoineadh, as well as reading Dracula through the lens of famine, and addressing Castle Richmond as representative of the difficulties of representing historical trauma. Of these the most unexpected is, 'Philosophick views'? Maria Edgeworth and the Great Famine, by Margaret Kelleher. Kelleher argues that such historic documents as Edgeworth's letters can round out famine research, because the letters both do and do not encounter hunger. Kelleher makes sure to disabuse the reader of Edgeworth's silence after her last novel Helen, published in 1834. Both public and private correspondence from the 1830s and 1840s, Kelleher maintains, shows that Edgeworth's status as an author of international renown gave her a unique position in lobbying for aid, a status which she fully exploited. The essay carefully examines the tensions between Edgeworth's wish for philanthropic aid to people who are starving and her accord with much of the political economy of the time. The essays in Part Two: The Politics of Memory cover familiar authors and texts—chapters on Joyce, Beckett, Yeats, and Synge appear—and these chapters are evocative and convincing. All of the essays in this section are persuasive, especially Bonnie Roos's The Joyce of Eating: Feast, Famine and the Humble Potato in Ulysses. Roos argues that Stephen's trouble with history and [End Page 157] Bloom's potato represent knowledge about the Famine (history) that could provide the characters with a way to move forward out of their constricting circumstances. Her graceful moving through both Nestor and Circe displays attention to close reading and current Joyce scholarship. Roos's clearest contribution to understanding how Ulysses is all about the Irish Famine comes when she connects Joyce's representations of prostitution and the potato to her claim that Famine's origins lay not only in imperialism, but also in patriarchy. Part Three: The Struggle for Context offers essays on Frank O'Connor's stories, Tom Murphy's drama, Eavan Boland's poetry, and Cecil Woodham-Smith's influence on children's fiction. Despite its distracting double column structure, Nieves Pascual's Irresponsible Anorexia: The Ethics of Eavan Boland's Famine clearly addresses the connections between famine and anorexia in Boland's poetry and beyond. Pascual's acute analysis of Boland's work on the right side of the page progresses alongside the left column, where an overview of international food politics and hunger aid appears in the context of her personal battle with anorexia. Pascual suggests that Boland elides self-starvation and famine into oppressive ideologies that weigh the lives of women down. Though the arguments occasionally overreach, the writers in the collection effectively maintain that famine can be traced in heretofore unconnected parts of the Irish canon. While editors might have pushed their..." @default.
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