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• W2953773768 abstract "The Social Silencing of Male Prostitution in Keith Ridgway's Angelo and The Parts José Carregal-Romero One of the most renowned and critically acclaimed gay fiction writers of contemporary Ireland, Keith Ridgway emerged in the 1990s as a powerful and innovative literary voice concerned with the rapid changes taking place in Irish society.1 Both Ridgway's 2001 story Angelo, which appeared in his collection Standard Time (awarded the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2001) and his novel The Parts (2003) foreground the injustice, alienation, and social divides of Celtic Tiger Dublin. In a 2012 interview, Ridgway remarks that in those years, Dublin became a parody of gross commercialism and consumerism.2 His fiction is highly critical of the neoliberal ethos of Celtic Tiger Ireland. Katherine O'Donnell notes that, even though the poor in The Parts are occluded in the noise of the economic boom [and] repressed from the dominant social imaginery, they nonetheless haunt the text.3 Despite his profound social critique, Ridgway does not succumb to a moralistic treatment of his subject matter, opting instead for a compelling use of black comedy and sarcasm. In terms of style and content, Ridgway's fiction also becomes representative of a contemporary trend in Irish literature, with authors who typically deal with socially silenced topics and identities. Much Irish Literature, according to a recent article, has moved away from dominant discourses and found an alternative strategy of representation that incorporates silence as a discursive tool in its own right.4 Silence, as Robin Patric Clair has theorized, is embedded in [End Page 122] language, as creating and re-creating our social realities through the organizing of knowledge.5 Although there is ample historical evidence that male prostitutes have existed since the time of the Romans and Greeks up through Victorian England and to the present, prostitution is most often gendered as a female occupation.6 The feminization of the world's oldest profession in patriarchal societies has clear implications regarding the nonrecognition of male prostitution and the perceived inferiority of prostitutes in general. In the case of rent boys—the type of male prostitute Ridgway represents in his fiction—their situation of inferiority typically arises from their social class, disadvantaged personal and familial backgrounds, and their very young age. In 1990s and early 2000s Ireland, in which Ridgway's texts are set, meaningful public discussions of male prostitution were virtually nonexistent—which, for that matter, also appears to be the case today.7 Those few journalists who did comment on the existence of rent boy generally focused on matters other than class oppression or the boys' experiences of marginalization. In 1994, a government minister was found in Dublin's Phoenix Park in the company of a rent boy, but the media coverage highlighted only the politician's tarnished reputation and his claim that he did not know that the boy was a prostitute: He said he deeply regretted the distress the incident had caused to his wife and family.8 Another 1994 article reported a politician's dismay that the law was not being stringently enforced in the Phoenix Park, where young men were seen to offer their sexual service (the 1993 Sexual Offences Act made it illegal to solicit or loiter on the street for the purposes of prostitution). A few years later in Dundalk, the residents of a neighborhood urged the police to eradicate the uncomfortable presence of teenage boys soliciting along the street and adult men picking up [these] youngsters for sex.9 None of the press coverage considered the harsh personal conditions that may drive teenagers into prostitution; it is hard not to conclude that, for many people, the most pressing concern was not to help these boys out of prostitution, but to keep their trade out of sight. [End Page 123] A 1997 article in the Irish Times did give a glimpse into the ugliest side of this underworld, after a middle-aged man had slept with a rent boy and found him dead in bed beside him the following morning. The boy's death was caused by a combination of alcohol and drug abuse, and the story reported that he came..." @default.
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