Lexington Books
Pages: 310
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-7936-0706-5 • Hardback • December 2019 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-7936-0707-2 • eBook • December 2019 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem is associate professor of English at the City University of New York, Kingsborough.
Foreword: Reckoning With (Women’s) Silence(s): The Work of Poetry
Chapter 1: Home Is Where the Border Is: The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Introduction, Part I: Poetics of Silence: Language, Image, Voice
Chapter 2: Silence | Speaking: The Secret-Spoken Language of Partition
Chapter 3: Text | Image: Ut pictura poïesis
Chapter 4: Textuality | Intertextuality: Embedded Contingencies and the Tyranny of (Postcolonial) Comparativity
Introduction, Part II: Economies of Speaking: Production, Consumption, Conjuring
Chapter 5: Poïesis | Poïema: “Deep in your snow”: Coming to Be Located
Chapter 6: Privated | Worlded: “Absolutely not hermetic”: Iterations of Silence and the Borders of Articulacy
Afterword: History | Prosody: The Poet as Conjure Artist
A breakthrough study, which combines a fine alertness to the local intensities of McGuckian's form and style with a sure understanding of the wider social forces out of which her works spring. This is a luminous, original analysis by a scholar who has the gift of explanation rather than simplification.
— Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame
Remarkable, revisionary, and beautifully written, Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian will be a landmark study of McGuckian’s oeuvre. The most critical intervention made by the book is to place in perspective—hopefully for good—the debates about McGuckian’s intertextuality and to integrate that practice with the concerns structuring her work: trauma, silence and dispossession.
— David Lloyd, University of California, Riverside