Blackness in Irish imagination: recuperating structures of feelings

• Grant number: 21/11639-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: May 02, 2022
• End date: December 02, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Languages
• Principal Investigator: Laura Patricia Zuntini de Izarra
• Grantee: Victor Augusto da Cruz Pacheco
• Supervisor: Tina Otoole
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Limerick (UL), Ireland
• Associated to the scholarship: 20/03891-7 - The representation of black characters in contemporary Irish literature, BP.DR

Abstract

The present proposal is part of the research project "As representações de personagens negros na literatura irlandesa contemporânea" which aims to analyze the representation of black characters in contemporary Irish fiction. Throughout the research development, the analysis of the literary texts showed that affective modulations are present within the levels of narration (racial anxiety), the humanists affects of the character construction (pity, empathy), and the affects and emotions derived from the interrelationships between characters (anxiety, guilty, optimism, paranoia, hope, freedom). This research proposal is concerned with the second part of the dissertation aiming to analyze literary representations of black characters living during the Celtic Tiger in the short stories "Guess who is coming for dinner" (2007) by Roddy Doyle and "The Welcome" (2007) by Emma Donoghue and Oona Frawley's novel Flight (2014). Following Sara Ahmed's concept of affect (2004) and Raymond Williams' structure of feelings (1977) to formulate the research hypothesis, the purpose of the period of research at the University of Limerick is to recuperate structures of feelings of the Celtic Tiger, which means analyzing race as something felt, and feeling as something racialized, and both race and affect can be traced through the aesthetic experience of the literary text. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PACHECO, VICTOR AUGUSTO DA CRUZ. ?Not that her being black had anything to do with it, for me?: Blackness in Emma Donoghue?s ?The Welcome?1. ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES, v. N/A, n. 18, p. 11-pg., 2023-01-01. (21/11639-9)