Melania Terrazas Gallego
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melania Terrazas Gallego |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melania Terrazas |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallego |
| SIGNATURE | GALLEGO M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de La Rioja |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6760-4368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“My views of kinship, community, one-anotherness and love extend beyond simply the human”
Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a remarkably perceptive Irish nature writer whose work, exploring ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care, is sharply truthful, courageous and compassionate. The following interview was conducted online in November 2024. She kindly talked about her two books, Thin Places (2021) and Cacophony of Bone (2023), and about herself as mother, writer and vegetable grower, covering issues such as violence in wa…
Irish Women’s Confessional Writing
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Neoliberalism, Film Noir Influences and Cultural Silence in Alan McMonagle’s Laura Cassidy’s Walk of Fame
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Stereotype blasting
This article examines Irish writer Alan McMonagle’s use of dark satire in his debut novel Ithaca (2017), which presents the story of Jason, a vulnerable child who meets another of society’s scapegoats, an unnamed “girl at the swamp”, and whose friendship offers an escape from the misery of life in the bog hole they call home. McMonagle’s invective finds external expression in his comic blasting of social constructions based on gender and class st…
Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture
Female revolutionaries suffered various traumas – including sexual trauma – during Ireland’s revolutionary period (1916–1923). This chapter draws on files from the Military Service Pensions Collection, personal accounts and literary narratives in order to consider the various medical treatments prescribed to women for “exhausted nerves” in the early decades of the Irish Free State. Contemporary understandings of what is now recognized as PTSD wer…
Claire Keegan’s Use of Satire
Introduction Irish writers have demonstrated their commitment to the short story genre through experimentation with varied stylistic techniques. In an insightful essay, Ingman (2009: 227) underlines this assumption of experimentation and focuses on Irish women writers, noting, for example, that their short stories present “a vignette to contemplate” and that the genre ignores “causality in favour
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Claire Keegan’s Use of Satire
Introduction Irish writers have demonstrated their commitment to the short story genre through experimentation with varied stylistic techniques. In an insightful essay, Ingman (2009: 227) underlines this assumption of experimentation and focuses on Irish women writers, noting, for example, that their short stories present “a vignette to contemplate” and that the genre ignores “causality in favour
Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture
Female revolutionaries suffered various traumas – including sexual trauma – during Ireland’s revolutionary period (1916–1923). This chapter draws on files from the Military Service Pensions Collection, personal accounts and literary narratives in order to consider the various medical treatments prescribed to women for “exhausted nerves” in the early decades of the Irish Free State. Contemporary understandings of what is now recognized as PTSD wer…
Stereotype blasting
This article examines Irish writer Alan McMonagle’s use of dark satire in his debut novel Ithaca (2017), which presents the story of Jason, a vulnerable child who meets another of society’s scapegoats, an unnamed “girl at the swamp”, and whose friendship offers an escape from the misery of life in the bog hole they call home. McMonagle’s invective finds external expression in his comic blasting of social constructions based on gender and class st…
Irish Women’s Confessional Writing
In recent times, the Irish literary arena has witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of women’s life writing, with a special interest in the examination of the female body. These works explore the relations between identity, memoir, and narration through the confessional, and reconceptualise the female body in the Irish context. This article sets out to examine collections of essays by two of these women writers, Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self (2019…
Neoliberalism, Film Noir Influences and Cultural Silence in Alan McMonagle’s Laura Cassidy’s Walk of Fame
Research has shown that neoliberalism alters the balance of power in favour of market forces and produces mental distress in young people. Given that media narratives and narrative texts reflect public discourse and mutually constitute one another, this analysis focuses on Alan McMonagle’s second novel, Laura Cassidy’s Walk of Fame, which stands for an indictment of neoliberal failure where social exclusion is prominent. McMonagle is part of a cr…
“My views of kinship, community, one-anotherness and love extend beyond simply the human”
Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a remarkably perceptive Irish nature writer whose work, exploring ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care, is sharply truthful, courageous and compassionate. The following interview was conducted online in November 2024. She kindly talked about her two books, Thin Places (2021) and Cacophony of Bone (2023), and about herself as mother, writer and vegetable grower, covering issues such as violence in wa…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Irish and British Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Irish (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)