“Writing is essentially a very, very innocent thing”: In Conversation with Marina Carr

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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2019-8888

Keywords:

Gender, Greek Tragedy, Irish Travellers and Creative Writing, Marina Carr, Theatre, Trauma

Abstract

Marina Carr participated in the Conference “Irish Itinerary 2018 (EFACIS): Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture” at the University of La Rioja. The following interview took place there on 13 February 2018, covering issues of gender, trauma, identity and travellers in an Irish context. Greek tragedy and myth, and Spanish adaptations of Marina Carr’s plays and creative writing were discussed as well. Carr offers a number of insightful responses and shares her views on gender, relationships and her motivations to write.

Author Biography

Melania Terrazas Gallego, University of La Rioja

Melania Terrazas Gallego is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of La Rioja (Spain) and Head of the Centre of Irish Studies Banna/Bond (EFACIS). She is the author of Relational Structures in Wyndham Lewis’s Fiction: Complexity and Value (Lincom, 2005) and was editor of Journal of English Studies (JES) for many years. She also guest edited Gender Issues in Contemporary Irish Literature (vol. 13.2, 2018) for Estudios Irlandeses, edited Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture (Peter Lang, 2020) and co-authored one Spanish translation of Marina Carr’s play Junto a la Ciénaga de los Gatos … (2022). She has published widely on British and Irish poetry, fiction, theatre and film, and translation. Currently, she is conducting research as part of the project “Posthuman Intersections in Irish and Galician Literatures” (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the ERDF [PID2022-136251NB-I00]).

References

Carr, Marina. Plays One: Low in the Dark. The Mai. Portia Coughlan. By the Bog of Cats. London: Faber and Faber, 1999.

Carr, Marina. Plays Two: On Raftery Hill. Ariel. Woman and Scarecrow. The Cordelia Dream. Marble. London: Faber and Faber, 2009.

Carr, Marina. Plays Three: Sixteen Possible Glimpses. Phaedra Backwards. The Map of Argentina. Hecuba. Indigo. London: Faber and Faber, 2015.

Lanters, José. The ‘Tinkers’ in Irish Literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008.

Muse, Amy. “Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy (review)”. New Hibernia Review 15. 4 (2011): 147-148.

Sternlicht, Sanford. Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr. 2nd ed. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2010.

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2019-03-17

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Melania Terrazas Gallego. (2019). “Writing is essentially a very, very innocent thing”: In Conversation with Marina Carr. Estudios Irlandeses, 14(1), 190–197. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2019-8888

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2019): Issue 14 - 2019

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Interviews

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