Tue, 05 Sept
|Dublin
Bodies and Boundaries in Irish and American Literature
How do bodies and boundaries interact with one another? Could they exist without another, and if so, how? Is it possible to dissolve both, and what would that entail?
Time & Location
05 Sept 2023, 09:00 – 06 Sept 2023, 18:00
Dublin, Drumcondra Rd Upper, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland
About the event
From the invitation: This conference, Bodies and Boundaries in Irish and American Literature, will explore these themes in twentieth
and twenty-first century literature through the lens of literary geography and theories on space, place and embodiment. Indeed, by using the different approaches of literature and geography to “think beyond taken-for-granted categories, levels, and terms” (Hones, 688),
literary geography allows a discussion that redefines not only the genres but also how one experiences a text according to different spatialities and bodies. Keynote speakers: June Caldwell, Nessa Cronin, Emilie Pine, Heidi Lynn Staples, Sophie White