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https://doi.org/10.29162/ANAFORA.v12i1.1
Neoliberal Revisionism and Subversion of the New Irishness in Anne Haverty’s The Free and Easy
Sanja Radmilo Derado
orcid.org/0000-0003-4004-510X
; Ekonomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The article examines the literary representation of the neoliberal economic paradigm in contemporary Irish women’s fiction using the example of the novel The Free and Easy by Anne Haverty. The grounding of this novel in the wider context of economics, especially neoliberal issues, is interpreted as a way of mediating economic reality through the text, whereby the literary text provides a deeper insight into the reality of global economic systems that have radically changed the Irish social landscape since the 1990s. The starting point of the research is the hypothesis that the cultural and literary imaginary of Ireland is closely connected with its economic and geopolitical status, which is continuously expressed in literary production during most of the twentieth century and in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The research is grounded in the new economic criticism, a relatively young theoretical paradigm established during the 1980s and the 1990s. Its main goal has been to establish a theoretical critical apparatus based on economic paradigms and models and to explore the limits of the interdisciplinarity of two scientific disciplines—economics and literature. Therefore, this article aims to show that through the interdisciplinary connection of economics and literature, and using the example of contemporary women’s fiction, it is possible to identify and analyze the muted or otherwise marginalized aspects of the modern economic landscape of Ireland. Special attention is paid to the motives of the social and identity gap formed as part of a wider cultural, economic, and social history of neoliberalism.
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Hrčak ID:
332995
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Datum izdavanja:
26.6.2025.
Posjeta: 669 *