Turning History into Prose: Irish History Reflected in Jennifer Johnston´s “Shadows on Our Skin” and Colm Tóibín´s “The Heather Blazing” 1999 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)Student thesis

Abstract [en]

The essay deals with two Irish novels, namely Jennifer Johnston´s “Shadows on Our Skin” and Colm Tóibín´s “The Heather Blazing”. Those novels are analysed according to their attempts at turning Irish history into prose. Both authors use the history of the island in order to make the characters´ situations and conditionsd clear. In this essay politics, religion, gender and social class are parts that are included in the word history. Both Johnston and Tóibín use those parts in order to explain the countries´ heritage and what made them into what they are today. The history of the divided Ireland reflect the lives depicted in the two novels and this essay is an attempt to show those connections.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages

1999.

Keywords [en]

Ireland, Northern Ireland, Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on Our Skin, Colm Cóibín The Heather Blazing, Irish history

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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-8473Local ID: U2498OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-8473DiVA, id: diva2:363559

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Humanities, Theology

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