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The Vanishing World of The Islandman

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25775-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-25774-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 7, 2019

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The Lure of the Primitive

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Pages: 1 –18

[Salvage ethnography is commonly associated with Franz Boas and his US colleagues, who engaged in a quest to collect the languages and the lore of “vanishing” Indian tribes. In this chapter, Nic Craith explores the exo-nostalgia that prevailed in the field of anthropology a century ago. This...
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Writing the Past

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Pages: 19 –41

[In this chapter, Nic Craith debunks the myth that Tomás Ó Criomhthain (like many “peasant writers”) was unlettered. She explores the influence of European literary giants such as Pierre Loti, Knut Hamsun and Maxim Gorky on Ó Criomhthain, and explores his storytelling journey. Through a...
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Narrative and Voice

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Pages: 43 –61

[With particular reference to An tOileánach (The Islandman), Nic Craith queries the extent to which a memoir presents a “thick description” of life, in this case, on an Irish island. It was widely assumed that the peasant narrative was at once the story of an individual and of his or her...
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Translating Place

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Pages: 63 –81

[The craft of translation can take many forms—from one language to another, or more generally from one medium to another. The writing and publication of An tOileánach coincided with the emergence of the Irish state from many centuries under British rule. This chapter begins with the “translation”...
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Native American and Indigenous Irish Narratives

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Pages: 83 –101

[The indigenous Irish share a common experience of colonisation with Native Americans. In this chapter, Nic Craith develops a comparison between Tomás Ó Criomhthain from the Great Blasket and Black Elk, a renowned Oglala Lakota medicine man, who had collaborated with John Neihardt on the...
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A Continental Epic

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Pages: 103 –118

[The appeal of a simple, peasant lifestyle that was disappearing in the wake of industrialisation and urbanisation prompted European contemporaries of Tomás Ó Criomhthain (such as Knut Hamsun and Hermann Hesse) to pen novels highlighting the relationship between humans and the natural...
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Museum and Memoir

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Pages: 119 –140

[Both museum and memoir are biographical objects. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, contemporary interest in the sublime motivates tourists to visit the Blasket Interpretative Centre on the Dingle Peninsula, which has recently been designated part of Ireland’s “Wild Atlantic Way.” In...
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Irish-American Networks

Nic Craith, Máiréad

Pages: 141 –159

[Given the extensive migration from the Blaskets to the US, the Irish-American connection has always been strong and features in Ó Criomhthain’s memoir. An tOileánach (The Islandman) holds a strong magnetism for descendants of the islanders in Springfield, Massachusetts. This chapter focuses on...

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