Published: 2022-06-26

A Record of „Miserable Irish Childhood” in Frank McCourt’s Autobiographical Dilogy

Magdalena Joanna Krzyżanowska Logo ORCID
Section: Explorations and Autopsies
https://doi.org/10.31261/Rana.2022.5.03

Abstract

The article aims to analyse and interpret the topic of poverty in the memories of Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis). Using sociological literature by, i.a, Ruth Lister and Zygmunt Bauman, the study presents the biography of the protagonist and his mother, marked by the phenomenon of inherited poverty. Drawing attention to the problem of irony and intertextuality in the literary works, the author argues that language is insufficient to express the experience of poverty and to be individualised from its system. The author of the article puts forward the thesis that the Irish writer’s dilogy is only seemingly of a confessional and personal nature, being more a story about the universal fate of an Irishman, a person affected by the problem of poverty.

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Krzyżanowska, M. J. (2022) “A Record of „Miserable Irish Childhood” in Frank McCourt’s Autobiographical Dilogy”, Rana. Literatura - Doświadczenie - Tożsamość [Wound. Literature – Experience – Identity], (1 (5), pp. 1–17. doi: 10.31261/Rana.2022.5.03.

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eISSN: 2719-5767
Ikona DOI 10.31261/rana

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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