The Great Famine in Ireland caused mass migration and shaped both history and culture. The geographical paths of migration led to the emergence of a transnational and transcultural web of memories that is represented by hybridised cultural forms today. This seminar deals with contemporary cultural products tackling the complex history of the famine. Frequently, the literature of the Hungry Forties serves as a major reference point for contemporary famine literature, and this context also indicates re-orientations in the historiography of the famine. Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea directs its memory work to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), for instance, while Paul Lynch’s Grace (2017) evokes Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848). Lance Daly’s 2018 film Black 47, in turn, appropriates the Western genre to tackle the history of the famine, and thus overlays Irish and American cultural trajectories. Apart from intertextuality, transcultural memory studies will provide a theoretical frame for our analyses.
Required Reading/viewing:
Joseph O’Connor, Star of the Sea
Paul Lynch, Grace
Lance Daly (dir.), Black 47
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