Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Autore di A Ghost in the Throat
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- Data di nascita
- 1981
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Luogo di nascita
- Galway, Ireland
- Luogo di residenza
- County Clare, Ireland
- Attività lavorative
- poet
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- 6
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- 1
- Utenti
- 414
- Popolarità
- #58,866
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 14
- ISBN
- 20
- Lingue
- 6
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Desire features strongly at first. Eibhlín's desire for Art is present in the first lines of her lament:
She sees in the wives of the city merchants their own desire for her handsome, fearless husband when he walks down the streets:
This desire is further powerfully expressed in the language of the flesh when she discovers his dead body, Art having been shot while on horseback:
Ní Ghríofa was captivated by this description of female desire from school age, and now as an adult, married with several children, in passionate love with her own husband, she identifies with and sees its connection to her own life. While we have many descriptions and musings on male desire, how welcome for a forthright depiction of female desire to get a turn.
Rediscovering this poem, making this connection, Ní Ghríofa now becomes intent on learning more about Eibhlín's life, and is aghast to find it largely missing. We don't know what became of her after Art's murder, how long she lived, where she lived, what she did, where she died, even where she is buried. The texts we have from that time are almost entirely about men, and even though Eibhlín's nephew was the political leader Daniel O'Connell, with lots of scholarship dedicated to his life and family, little of Eibhlín has survived. Ní Ghríofa decides to pursue the physical record and physical remains to retrieve what she can of the female life that lies hidden, that has disappeared.
The back and forth in the work between Ní Ghríofa's own life and her attempts at a reconstruction of Eibhlín's life seeks to build echoes between the two women's lives, and perhaps in a sense the lives of all women. Knowing all the details of her own life, and few of the details of Eibhlín's, it's a work that leans on poetic language and imagining what is not known based on what is. It's also a work of exhaustion, of frustration, before a final letting go of mysteries and language.… (altro)