Change, Stasis and Celtic Tiger Ireland in the Short Stories of There Are Little Kingdoms (2007) by Kevin Barry

Madalina Armie

doi:10.24162/EI2022-10642

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Madalina Armie University of Almería https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0220-4627

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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2022-10642

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Celtic Tiger, Irlanda, crisis, prosperidad, el relato corto irlandés

Resumen

El presente ensayo se centra en la primera colección de relatos cortos There Are Little Kingdoms (2007) escrita por el autor irlandés, Kevin Barry. La Irlanda aquí retratada es la Irlanda del nuevo milenio, y está presenciando las transformaciones de la prosperidad del Tigre Celta. Con el análisis de esta colección, la cual proporciona varias instantáneas de la Irlanda contemporánea, se explorará como la República retratada en la obra de Barry sigue siendo un territorio atado de alguna forma a su pasado rural, caracterizado muchas veces por sus cortos puntos de mira, muy a pesar de las pretensiones de desarrollo. Los cambios están sucediendo, pero al mismo tiempo el estancamiento permea los escenarios de las tramas. La ironía es evidente si se considera que el periodo de bonanza económica se asocia con la prosperidad y con el júbilo, no obstante, las vidas y las historias de los personajes There Are Little Kingdoms (2007), tal y como se mostrará en este ensayo, son descorazonadoras.

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Madalina Armie, University of Almería

Madalina Armie studied English language and literature and earned a master’s degree in the same field in 2014 from the University of Almería. In 2014, she obtained the Patricia Shaw Research Award granted by the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). She completed her PhD at the University of Almería in 2019 on the contemporary Irish short story at the turn of the twenty-first century. Her current areas of research include the contemporary Irish short story, Irish contemporary women’s writing, women’s studies, and gender studies. She also has an interest in the use of ICT in education and language teaching methodologies such as gamification or the use and the implementation of literature in the classroom. The author is currently teaching English at the University of Almeria.

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