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Journal Article
The Political Embodiment of AIDS: Between Individual and Social Bodies in Colm Tóibín’s The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship
2017
Overview
[...]Tóibín came out as a gay man in 1993, the same year when homosexuality became decriminalized in Ireland and a few years before he published his first novel with a gay man as a leading character. [...]each body moves in a universe of bodies: the idea of a body is essentially pluralistic, so that the corporeity of society is placed at one and the same time in conjunction with the singular-body and with the pluralistic universe-body, in homogenous and complex relationships. According to Kim Wallace, the new political framework that Ireland faced during this decade, the \"crossing of ideological boundaries\", made Irish writers \"able to create imaginative spaces in which concepts of identity, community and nationality can be explored and redefined\" (2000: 257). According to Matthew Ryan, the fact that all of these gay characters visit the Wexford coast far from the capital city Dublin entails a project of \"textual reterritorialization\" which creates a tension between tradition and modernity.
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AEDEI,Dra. Rosa Gonzalez on behalf of AEDEI,Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
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