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20 décembre 2012
- doi: 10.4000/books.puc.575
- isbn: 9782841332892
- eisbn: 9782841334506
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Irlande famine littérature irlandaise littérature de langue anglaise Literature, British Isles LIT004120 DSBSujets proches
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Danielle Jacquin, « « How long Lord ? » », Presses universitaires de Caen, ID : 10.4000/books.puc.575
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Famine, a sequence with drawings by James McKenna, obviously a personal contribution to the national commemoration since it was published in 1994, includes most of the themes that have been running through the poet’s work for the past thirty years : compassion, the denunciation of violence and injustice, the attachment to the Irish land, the thirst for harmony, the past viewed as the inexorable weaver of the present. The poet’s vision and fierce message about centuries of British rule and the stylistic features, among which the diptych form and the rhetorical devices play a prominent part, are analysed in the four sections of this article – time and memory, space, the vehemence of the outspoken message, and empathy. In this committed Famine, the poet also dreams of an undivided, better Ireland, with man – not economy – at the heart of her society.