Border Tropes in Eugene McCabe's 'Fermanagh Trilogy'

This essay analyses Eugene McCabe’s short stories, ‘Cancer’, ‘Heritage’ and ‘Siege’ – known commonly as the ‘Fermanagh trilogy’ – focusing on them as border fictions. Written in the 1970s, the author argues that the stories share a material, cultural ‘borderliness’, a condition which is structured i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lance Pettitt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2023-12-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
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Online Access:https://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/3223