Rennhak, Katharina (ed.)

Contents:Narrating the Community: The Short Story Cycles of Val Mulkerns and Mary Beckett (Elke D’hoker) – ‘The End of the World as We Know It’: New Narrative Forms for a New Era in Contemporary Fiction from the North of Ireland? (Fiona McCann) – Trauma and Narrative Techniques in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark and Anne Enright’s The Gathering (Hedwig Schwall) – Beyond the Comfort Zone: Narrating Child Abuse in Joyce, McCabe and Enright (Anton Kirch¬hofer) – Puzzling Narrative Identities and the Ethics of the Literary Imagination in Sebastian Barry’s ‘Dunne Series’ (Katharina Rennhak) – Narrating the Ballymun Experience in Dermot Bolger’s Ballymun Trilogy (Anna Hanrahan) – Ireland, Lost Between Country and City: Eavan Boland in the Suburb (Christian Huck) – Celtic Tiger Ireland and the Politics of Disgust: White Trash in Sebastian Barry’s Play The Pride of Parnell Street and Leonard Abrahamson’s Film Adam and Paul (Sarah Heinz) – Craggy Island – Cranky Ireland? Serial Visions of Irishness in Father Ted (Rainer Emig) – Shamrocks, Stereotypes and Social Networking (Claire Lynch)