The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance.
The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance.
This comprehensive collection brings together contributions from international scholars who explore Rooneys novels through a range of interdisciplinary lenses, including literary studies, gender theory, political analysis, and cultural criticism. The book provides critical insights into Rooneys exploration of millennial identity, class dynamics, relationships, and the evolving role of technology in shaping human connections. By situating Rooneys work within both the global context and post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, the collection presents a nuanced understanding of her literary impact.
The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney is essential reading for academics and students studying contemporary Irish literature. The volume not only highlights the significance of Rooneys work in contemporary literature but also expands on its sociopolitical relevance, making it an indispensable resource for understanding her cultural impact.
Preface;1. Introduction;
2. The Spatial De-turn? (Non)representation of
Place and Emerging Spaces in Sally Rooneys Beautiful World, Where Are You;
3. An Intimacy as Close as Between the Sea and the Strand: The Boundary
between World and Body in Sally Rooneys Normal People;
4. A Feminist Reading
of Sally Rooneys Novels Conversations with Friends, Normal People, and
Beautiful World, Where Are You?;
5. Inside of a Glass Jar: Visibilising
Insidious Trauma in Conversations with Friends;
6. (De)Constructing
Masculinities in Sally Rooneys Novel Normal People and TV Series Adaptation;
7. Vulnerability and Female Sexuality in Sally Rooneys Conversations with
Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018): Agent, Doer or Sufferer?;
8. Queer
World, Where Are You? The Im/Possibility of Queer Love in Sally Rooneys
Novels;
9. Identity, Sociality and Love in Sally Rooneys Normal People:
Exploring the Tensions Between Philosophies of Authenticity, Ethics and
Community;
10. The Ethics of Vulnerability and Relationality in a Collapsing
World in Sally Rooneys Beautiful World, Where Are You;
11. I Loved When He
Was Available to Me Like This: Modernisation and (Mis)communication;
12.
Intimacy in Sally Rooneys novels: Being Alone with Her is Like Opening a
Door Away from Normal Life and Then Closing It Behind Them;
13. Sex and Space
in Contemporary Ireland: The Vicissitudes of Intimacy in Normal People;
14.
Thoughtful Faces and Sleek Bodies: Thinness and the Politics of Consumption
in the Fiction of Sally Rooney;
15. It was just period pain: Endometriosis
as a Marker of Sexual Difference and Desirability in Sally Rooneys
Conversations with Friends;
16. A Transmodern Reading of Sally Rooneys
Normal People: Millennial Vulnerabilities and the Paradox of
Interconnectedness;
17. Bleeding in the Pews: Partial Faith in Sally Rooneys
Conversations with Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You;
18. Changing
Spaces in the Anthropocene: Solastalgia and the Search for Hope in Sally
Rooneys Beautiful World, Where Are You;
19. There Are a Lot of White People
Here: Race, Class and Relationality in the Screen Adaptations of Normal
People and Conversations with Friends;
20. Hegemonic and Vulnerable
Masculinities in Sally Rooneys Normal People;
21. Sally Rooneys Novels: The
Aesthetics of the Contemporary Irish Bildungsroman;
22. The Dark Turn of
Chick Lit in Sally Rooneys Works; Index
Angelos Bollas is an independent scholar focusing on literature, sociology, education, and cultural studies while working as Education Development Specialist at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He has studied English, sociology, education, and cultural studies at BA, MA, and PhD levels in Greece, the UK, and Ireland. He is the author of Contemporary Irish Masculinities: Male Homosociality in Sally Rooneys Novels (2024), Sexualised Governmentalities: Critical Perspectives on Homosexism (2024), and Fashionable Queerness: Straight Appropriation of Queer Fashion (2024). He recently co-edited HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society (2024).
