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kn-title=Transatlantic connections in John McGahern�fs The Leavetaking
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kn-abstract=John McGahern is most often regarded as an artist of the local or the �gself-enclosed world�h, as Declan Kiberd puts it. His works explore the lives and loves of characters in settings that correspond closely with the localities of McGahern�fs youth in the north-west of Ireland. Accordingly, the themes of his work are often aligned with those of other �gprovincial�h Irish realists, in Kavanagh�fs sense of the word: religion, exile, and local identities or selves. This paper, however, focuses on instances where McGahern contrasts the self with the non-self in distinct national-cultural terms. Specifically, in The Leavetaking, as well as the short stories �gDoorways�h and �gBank Holiday�h, he introduces American characters (women in all three cases) as much, it would seem, to provide the spark of a love-interest for those stories�f drifting male protagonists as to provide a commentary on Ireland by way of comparison with America and American perceptions of Ireland. In doing so, McGahern deploys a transatlantic vocabulary of circulation and movement that reflects the openness of his enclosed locality to the non-local, the self to the non-self.
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en-affil=Faculty of Letters, Okayama University
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en-keyword=John McGahern
kn-keyword=John McGahern
en-keyword=Irish literature
kn-keyword=Irish literature
en-keyword=Irish identity
kn-keyword=Irish identity
en-keyword=transatlantic literature
kn-keyword=transatlantic literature
en-keyword=America and Ireland
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dt-pub-year=2021
dt-pub=202111
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kn-title=�eAll sorts of wonderful impossibilities�f: Tracing the Genesis of John McGahern�fs �eDoorways�f
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kn-abstract=It is well known by now that John McGahern was a scrupulous reviser of his own work, even if this insight into his compositional methods has not been accompanied by a substantial body of research on the archive and the revisions themselves. This essay aims to address this anomaly by focusing on the genetic evolution of McGahern's short story �eDoorways�f. Specifically, it will concentrate on the earliest handwritten drafts when the work is at its most provisional. The consensus view of McGahern's writing practices is of an artist committed to ideals of Flaubertian perfectionism, but implicit in this view is a bias towards the more granular work of late-stage refinement. The approach this essay takes shows McGahern at his most distant from the Flaubertian perfectionist that he is best known as, thus opening up new ways to reconsider how those works achieve their distinctive appearance of refined delicacy and simplicity.
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