Fiona Mccann
Biographic Data
| ID | 511759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Mccann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccann |
| SIGNATURE | MCCANN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Lille |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5827-4440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction. The North of Ireland
“[W]hat community means” in Wendy Erskine’s Short Stories
This article investigates the notion of community in short stories by Wendy Erskine. The definition of community is somewhat capacious, ranging from a social group whose members reside in a specific locality, or a group sharing common characteristics or interests, to a place inhabited by any such group, and when it is used in the North of Ireland, the term can even be potentially divisive. Against a strong semantic and political tendency to prese…
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish liter…
Earth Care and Recovery in Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Thin Places (2021)
Thin Places (2021) is a piece of work which defies categorization. It is partly a memoir filled with traumatic personal events, partly a reflection on loss in all its manifest forms (physical, familial, linguistic, environmental), and partly an uplifting plea for allowing the exploration of our natural surroundings to function as a meaningful form of care. Kerri ní Dochartaigh uses the materiality of the sentient beings that surround us, and deep…
Síobhra Aiken, Spiritual Wounds. Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War
Spiritual Wounds by Síobhra Aiken is not only a timely reappraisal of fictional, (semi-)autobiographical, and non-fictional narratives of the Irish Civil War and what they reveal about trauma and the power of testimony; it is also a colossal piece of research, as the thirty-page bibliography testifies to, and a generous contribution to contemporary research on the forgotten stories of this period of Irish history. In a coherently presented demons…
In Other Worlds
It is July 2021 and as we write this introduction, parts of Northern Europe have just experienced catastrophic flooding while Western parts of North America are facing yet another formidable and life-threatening heatwave. Earlier this year, southern parts of the USA experienced a polar vortex which translated into record-breaking low temperatures in Texas, Mozambique was devastated by the third cyclone to hit coasts there since 2019, flash floods…
Forms of Care
This article explores feminist politics in Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and the ways in which it interlinks with forms of care. I tease out the author’s engagement with intersectional feminism as well as her blind spots. I situate Adiche’s work within the context of postcolonial, popular and decolonial feminism, unpacking the significance of hair and the more general question of agency. I then move to show that the poetics of care develo…
South African and Northern Irish Political Prison Writing Reimagining/Reconfiguring the Carceral Space
Without overplaying the convergences in the discriminatory and oppressive practices carried out during the twentieth century by the states of South Africa (1948–1994) and Northern Ireland (1921–1998), it is difficult not to see prisons as one of the spaces where the power of the state was hotly contested. Physically isolated either by the countryside or by the ocean, the notorious prisons of Long Kesh/H Blocks and Robben Island housed vast number…
The Carceral Network in Ireland
‘The Good Terrorist(s)’? Interrogating Gender and Violence in Ann Devlin’s ‘Naming the Names’ and Anna Burns’ No Bones
Strong, powerful, militant women loom large in the mythology and history of Ireland, and yet, as Brendan Kennelly has pointed out, “he history, or herstory, of Irish women is rather like that of the Irish language– much talked about but little heard” (1995: xx). From Queen Medb of Connaught to Constance Markievicz and from the women
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‘The Good Terrorist(s)’? Interrogating Gender and Violence in Ann Devlin’s ‘Naming the Names’ and Anna Burns’ No Bones
Strong, powerful, militant women loom large in the mythology and history of Ireland, and yet, as Brendan Kennelly has pointed out, “he history, or herstory, of Irish women is rather like that of the Irish language– much talked about but little heard” (1995: xx). From Queen Medb of Connaught to Constance Markievicz and from the women
The Carceral Network in Ireland
In Other Worlds
It is July 2021 and as we write this introduction, parts of Northern Europe have just experienced catastrophic flooding while Western parts of North America are facing yet another formidable and life-threatening heatwave. Earlier this year, southern parts of the USA experienced a polar vortex which translated into record-breaking low temperatures in Texas, Mozambique was devastated by the third cyclone to hit coasts there since 2019, flash floods…
Forms of Care
This article explores feminist politics in Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and the ways in which it interlinks with forms of care. I tease out the author’s engagement with intersectional feminism as well as her blind spots. I situate Adiche’s work within the context of postcolonial, popular and decolonial feminism, unpacking the significance of hair and the more general question of agency. I then move to show that the poetics of care develo…
South African and Northern Irish Political Prison Writing Reimagining/Reconfiguring the Carceral Space
Without overplaying the convergences in the discriminatory and oppressive practices carried out during the twentieth century by the states of South Africa (1948–1994) and Northern Ireland (1921–1998), it is difficult not to see prisons as one of the spaces where the power of the state was hotly contested. Physically isolated either by the countryside or by the ocean, the notorious prisons of Long Kesh/H Blocks and Robben Island housed vast number…
Síobhra Aiken, Spiritual Wounds. Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War
Spiritual Wounds by Síobhra Aiken is not only a timely reappraisal of fictional, (semi-)autobiographical, and non-fictional narratives of the Irish Civil War and what they reveal about trauma and the power of testimony; it is also a colossal piece of research, as the thirty-page bibliography testifies to, and a generous contribution to contemporary research on the forgotten stories of this period of Irish history. In a coherently presented demons…
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish liter…
Earth Care and Recovery in Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Thin Places (2021)
Thin Places (2021) is a piece of work which defies categorization. It is partly a memoir filled with traumatic personal events, partly a reflection on loss in all its manifest forms (physical, familial, linguistic, environmental), and partly an uplifting plea for allowing the exploration of our natural surroundings to function as a meaningful form of care. Kerri ní Dochartaigh uses the materiality of the sentient beings that surround us, and deep…
Introduction. The North of Ireland
“[W]hat community means” in Wendy Erskine’s Short Stories
This article investigates the notion of community in short stories by Wendy Erskine. The definition of community is somewhat capacious, ranging from a social group whose members reside in a specific locality, or a group sharing common characteristics or interests, to a place inhabited by any such group, and when it is used in the North of Ireland, the term can even be potentially divisive. Against a strong semantic and political tendency to prese…
Irish and British Studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Irish (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)