Poesía de la COVID-19 en Irlanda: reflexiones sobre el confinamiento en In Search of a Horizon/Léaslíne a Lorg de Celia de Fréine

Autores/as

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2024-12379

Palabras clave:

Poesía del confinamiento, Pandemia COVID-19, Celia de Fréine, In Search of a Horizon

Resumen

Este artículo analiza el poemario Léaslíne a Lorg / In Search of a Horizon (2022), de la irlandesa Celia de Fréine, enteramente dedicado al confinamiento resultante de la pandemia de la COVID-19 tal como fue vivido por la voz poética – fácilmente identificable con la propia autora – desde su hogar en Dublín. En los 18 poemas que conforman el volumen, publicado en formato bilingüe (inglés e irlandés), de Fréine reflexiona sobre aspectos tan relevantes como la supuesta objetividad del discurso científico sobre el virus, las relaciones entre el mundo humano y el no-humano, la degradación medioambiental y la relación histórica de la pandemia de la COVID-19 con previas crisis sanitarias en Irlanda, particularmente el escándalo de la hepatitis C. Mi análisis llevará a cabo una lectura profunda de los textos, y adoptará una perspectiva tanto nacional como transnacional. El objetivo último de este trabajo es reflexionar sobre el virus en sus dimensiones socio-culturales con el fin de complementar el discurso biomédico en torno al mismo.

Biografía del autor/a

Luz Mar González-Arias

Luz Mar González-Arias is Senior Lecturer in the English Department, University of Oviedo. Her research is primarily in the areas of body theory and Medical Humanities, as applied (mainly, but not exclusively) to the work of contemporary Irish women poets and visual artists. Her recent publications include essays on eating disorders, PTSD, cancer, disability, COVID-19, ageing and death in Irish University ReviewEire-IrelandRISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe and The Nordic Irish Studies Journal, among others. She has edited National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature (Palgrave, 2017), and co-edited (with Monika Glosowitz) the special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics on “The Affective Aesthetics of the Body in Pain” (51-4/2018). In 2016 and 2017 she curated the performances and exhibition of Amanda Coogan at the Niemeyer Centre (Avilés, Asturias). She is the PI in the research project “END: Illness in the Age of Extinction. Anglophone Narratives of Personal and Planetary Degradation (2000-2020)”, financed by the Spanish National Research programme, and is currently curating artistic and performative interventions along the Atlantic coast. A selection of her work is accessible at academia.edu: https://uniovi.academia.edu/LuzMarGonzalezArias

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Publicado

17-03-2024

Cómo citar

González-Arias, L. M. . (2024). Poesía de la COVID-19 en Irlanda: reflexiones sobre el confinamiento en In Search of a Horizon/Léaslíne a Lorg de Celia de Fréine. Estudios Irlandeses, 19(1), 25–38. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2024-12379