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04134aam a2200505 i 4500 001 23896A1278F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200805t20202020inua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020029043 020 $a 0253053188 020 $a 9780253053183 020 $a 025305317X 020 $a 9780253053176 035 $a (OCoLC)1139348424 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OBE $d OCLCO $d YUS $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR8807.C43 $b V35 2020 082 00 $a 820.9/9415 $2 23 100 1 $a Valente, Joseph, $e author. 245 14 $a The child sex scandal and modern Irish literature : $b writing the unspeakable / $c Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus ; foreword by Fintan O'Toole. 264 1 $a Bloomington, Indiana : $b Indiana University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xxvi, 270 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Irish culture, memory, place 520 $a "Even though the Irish child sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have appeared steadily in the media, many children remain in peril. In The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature, Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus examine modern cultural responses to child sex abuse in Ireland. Using descriptions of these scandals found in newspapers, historiographical analysis, and 20th- and 21st-century literature, Valente and Backus expose a public sphere ardently committed to Irish children's souls and piously oblivious to their physical welfare. They offer historically contextualized and psychoanalytically informed readings of scandal narratives by nine notable modern Irish authors who actively, pointedly, and persistently question Ireland's responsibilities regarding its children. Through close, critical readings, a more nuanced and troubling account emerges of how Ireland's postcolonial heritage has served to enable such abuse. The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature refines the debates on why so many Irish children were lost by offering insight into the lived experience of both the children and those who failed them"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The enigmatic history of imperiled innocence -- "An iridescence difficult to account for" : sexual initiation in Joyce's fiction of development -- Between (open) secret and enigma : Kate O'Brien, The land of spices, and the stylistic invention of lesbian (in)visibility -- Country girl : groomed, seduced, and abandoned -- From the pits and ditches where people have fallen : sex scandal and the reinvention of the Irish public sphere in Keith Ridgway's The long falling -- Retrofitting Ireland's architecture of containment in Tana French's In the woods -- "Roaring inside me" : the enigma of sexual violence in The gathering -- Epilogue: What about Brendan? 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Child sexual abuse in literature. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Child sexual abuse by clergy in literature. 650 7 $a Child sexual abuse by clergy in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02021905 650 7 $a Child sexual abuse in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902757 650 7 $a English fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a English fiction $x Irish authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910841 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Valente, Joseph. $t Child sex scandal and modern Irish literature $d Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2020 $z 9780253053190 $w (DLC) 2020029044 700 1 $a Backus, Margot Gayle, $d 1961- $e author. 700 1 $a O'Toole, Fintan, $d 1958- $e author of foreword. 830 0 $a Irish culture, memory, and place. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020510.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=23896A1278F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search