'The cage of my moment': a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction
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O'Neill, C. & Donoghue, E., 'The cage of my moment': a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction, Journal of Historical Fictions, 2, 2, 2019, 126 - 141Download Item:
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This conversation with the Irish author Emma Donoghue is focused
on her relationship with history and fiction. Topics discussed include the relationship
between scholarly research and the writing of historical fiction, the
author’s sense of duty to the past. We talked about the process of writing historical
fiction, and the importance (or lack of importance) of having an ‘authentic’
link to the moment, or the material that one works with. It is in this context
that the author speaks of historical fiction as something that has helped her to
open the ‘cage of her moment’. The conversation took place in front of a large
audience at Boston College on 1 December 2018. It was held at the end of a
one-day symposium on History and Fiction at Connolly House, a renowned centre
for Irish Studies in the United States, and for this reason the interview concludes
with a wider consideration of the author’s Irish identity and how living
outside of Ireland has effected it in recent decades.
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Author: O'Neill, Ciaran; Donoghue, Emma
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