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Literary Drownings is both a triumph of original scholarship and a compelling read. Boeninger's penetrating critical vision produces a wealth of insights into the power and purchase of the trope of the drowning body on the literary imagination. This book resonates uncannily today when shocking images of drowned bodies regularly confront us as stark reminders of the geopolitical inequalities of our own time. In a specific sense, this book offers insights through careful readings of drowning and memory in Synge, Walcott, Dabydeen, and Carr; yet more generally, it is a perceptive transatlantic meditation on gender, creativity, and nationalism. Literary Drowning is a remarkable achievement which demonstrates the revelatory power of comparativism at its best. Boeninger creates a rich theoretical, historical, and folkloric context for her investigations of major works by J. M. Synge, Derek Walcott, David Dabydeen, and Marina Carr.

In a specific sense, this book offers insights through careful readings of drowning and memory in Synge, Walcott, Dabydeen, and Carr; yet more generally, it is a perceptive transatlantic meditation on gender, creativity, and nationalism.--Michael Malouf, author of Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics Literary Drownings is both a triumph of original scholarship and a compelling read. Boeninger's penetrating critical vision produces a wealth of insights into the power and purchase of the trope of the drowning body on the literary imagination. This book resonates uncannily today when shocking images of drowned bodies regularly confront us as stark reminders of the geopolitical inequalities of our own time.--P.J. Mathews, University College Dublin Literary Drowning is a remarkable achievement which demonstrates the revelatory power of comparativism at its best. Boeninger creates a rich theoretical, historical, and folkloric context for her investigations of major works by J. M. Synge, Derek Walcott, David Dabydeen, and Marina Carr.--Susan Cannon Harris, author of Irish Drama and Other Revolutions

In a specific sense, this book offers insights through careful readings of drowning and memory in Synge, Walcott, Dabydeen, and Carr; yet more generally, it is a perceptive transatlantic meditation on gender, creativity, and nationalism.--Michael Malouf, author of Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics Literary Drowning is a remarkable achievement which demonstrates the revelatory power of comparativism at its best. Boeninger creates a rich theoretical, historical, and folkloric context for her investigations of major works by J. M. Synge, Derek Walcott, Charles Dabydeen, and Marina Carr.--Susan Cannon Harris, author of Irish Drama and Other Revolutions Literary Drownings is both a triumph of original scholarship and a compelling read. Boeninger's penetrating critical vision produces a wealth of insights into the power and purchase of the trope of the drowning body on the literary imagination. This book resonates uncannily today when shocking images of drowned bodies regularly confront us as stark reminders of the geopolitical inequalities of our own time.--P.J. Mathews, University College Dublin

In a specific sense, this book offers insights through careful readings of drowning and memory in Synge, Walcott, Dabydeen, and Carr; yet more generally, it is a perceptive transatlantic meditation on gender, creativity, and nationalism.-- Michael Malouf, author of Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics Literary Drowning presents insightful readings of writers whose literature participates in a small but distinct canon in transatlantic archipelagic studies.-- New West Indian Guide Literary Drowning is a remarkable achievement which demonstrates the revelatory power of comparativism at its best. Boeninger creates a rich theoretical, historical, and folkloric context for her investigations of major works by J. M. Synge, Derek Walcott, David Dabydeen, and Marina Carr.-- Susan Cannon Harris, author of Irish Drama and Other Revolutions Literary Drownings is both a triumph of original scholarship and a compelling read. Boeninger's penetrating critical vision produces a wealth of insights into the power and purchase of the trope of the drowning body on the literary imagination. This book resonates uncannily today when shocking images of drowned bodies regularly confront us as stark reminders of the geopolitical inequalities of our own time.-- P.J. Mathews, University College Dublin

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Stephanie Pocock Boeninger is associate professor of English at Providence College, specializing in modern drama. She is the author of numerous articles on Irish and Caribbean literature in journals such as Modern Drama, Contemporary Literature, and Theatre Journal.

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