<em>Personal Wounds, National Scars. Reflections on Individual and Cultural Trauma in Anne Enright’s </em>The Gathering"

In her 2007 novel, Enright presents her readers with a complex network of disturbing, ambiguous narratives, woven together – however tentatively – by the grief-stricken voice of Veronica Hegarty. What emerges is a painful chapter of the moral history of contemporary Ireland, one in which  ‘family’ a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ilaria Oddenino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2011-08-01
Series:Studi Irlandesi
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7134