2018 IASIL CONFERENCE "Reimagining Traditions" at Radboud University Nijmegen, 23-27 July

The  inTRUTHS Research Project was represented at IASIL 2018 with the participation of three of its members who delivered papers on alternative reimaginations of "inconvenient truths" and untold experiences by contemporary Irish fiction writers in which they discussed issues of silence in relation to sexuality, family and history. 

Thus, José Carregal  read a paper entitled "The Self-Censored Gay Subtext in Colm Tóibín’s The South: A Comparison between the Published Text and the Drafts” in a panel chaired by Marisol Morales. Marisol, for her part,  talked about reimagining motherhood in her paper “The child as other, m(other)hood and the displacement of traditional maternity in Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music”, whereas Teresa Caneda spoke about the untold stories of the Irish past in her “‘To Pick up the Unsaid, and Perhaps Unknown’: Reimagining the “True Stories” of the Past in Evelyn Conlon’s Fiction”. 

In the picture, Marisol Morales, Teresa Caneda and Jose Carregal after the session on Colm Tóibín.