Memory, Trauma and Forgetting in Northern Irish Drama

The ethical exhortation ‘not to forget’ runs the risk of ‘a memory that would never forget anything’. At the other extreme is the no less dangerous risk of total amnesia, an erasure of the past that immediately suggests Freud and the return of the repressed. The complex balance to be found between...

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Main Author: Anthony Roche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2017-03-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
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Online Access:https://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/rise/article/view/1441
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