EAN: 9783030257743

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY THE...

Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman)  an indigenous Irish-language memoir
written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan)  Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó
Criomhthain as an author  the writing  illustration  and publication of the memoir in Irish 
and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic  Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes
the appeal of an island fisherman's century-old life-story to readers in several
languages-considering the memoir's global reception in human  literary and artistic terms-Nic
Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain's writing closer to home: the Blasket
Island Interpretive Centre  which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir
and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the
overlapping frames of literary analysis  archival work  interviews  and ethnographic
examination  nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme  expressed in different ways
by the young Irish state  by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today 
by anthropologists  and beyond.

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