Family and Dysfunction in Contemporary Irish Narrative and Film

Marisol Morales-Ladrón is Senior Lecturer at the University of Alcalá, where she teaches Irish and English literature. She is the author of Breve introducción a la literatura comparada (1999) and Las poéticas de James Joyce y Luis Martín-Santos (2005). She also edited Postcolonial and Gender Perspectives in Irish Studies (2007) and coedited Global Ireland: Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts (2011). She has served as Chair of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI) and as a board member of AEDEI and the Spanish Society for Comparative and General Literature (SELGyC).

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• Contents: Marisol Morales-Ladrón/Inés Praga/Asier Altuna-García de Salazar/Juan F. Elices/Rosa González-Casademont: Introduction: Home, Family and Dysfunction in the Narrative and Filmic Discourses of Ireland – Marisol Morales-Ladrón: Portraits of Dysfunction in Contemporary Irish Women’s Narratives: Confined to the Cell, Lost to Memory – Inés Praga: Home Revisited: Family (Re)Constructions in Contemporary Irish Autobiographical Writing – Asier Altuna-García de Salazar: Family and Dysfunction in Ireland Represented in Fiction Through the Multicultural and Intercultural Prisms – Juan F. Elices: Familiar Dysfunctionalities in Contemporary Irish Satirical Literature – Rosa González-Casademont: Representation of Family Tropes and Discourses in Contemporary Irish-Themed Cinema – Asier Altuna-García de Salazar: From Escaping to Facing Dysfunction: An Interview with Emer Martin – Rosa González-Casademont: «There is no point in making local stories that are not universally true»: An Interview with Jim Sheridan – Rosa González-Casademont: «Ireland is a tough one when it comes to filming»: An Interview with Kirsten Sheridan.