University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR6050 1961-2000 The text becomes a site of contradictory images of Ireland, asserting a timelessness that is paradoxically reaffirmed only by the novel’s timely emergence onto an international scene only too conscious of Ireland’s economic woesĪnne Enright,The Gathering, Celtic Tiger, globalisation, Booker Prize If Enright’s novel gained international fame just as Ireland teetered on the cusp of economic decline, then I suggest that the novel resists this by recuperating and celebrating the rich legacy of Irish literary culture, and indeed, Irish culture more broadly. Does Ireland’s relationship to global economic conditions reflect national, cultural and social pathologies reflected in its literature? Does globally recognized Irish literature represent an alternative vision of Ireland that resists the vicissitudes of the global economy, even while these images depend on global forces? I will argue that the ephemeral nature of the text, expressed through the intimate details of the domestic, the psychological and familial, appear at odds with the contemporary national preoccupation with excessive materialism, consumerism and overspending. It focuses, in particular, on the contemporary Irish writer, Anne Enright and her 2007 Booker prize novel, The Gathering. This paper will discuss the globalization of literature through the celebrity status of the Booker prize. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.Concomitant with the rise of neoliberalism, Booker prize winning novels, since the 1980s, have consistently mediated global awareness of national contexts within a globalised economy. The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him-something that happened in their grandmother’s house in the winter of 1968. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices.
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