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 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies
2017-03-01
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| 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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