![]() The four official reports published between 2009 – when the Ryan report was made public – and 2011 with the Cloyne report, set in relief the fact that it was not just isolated individuals, but the whole of Irish society who had to suffer the devastating and long-lasting consequences of several decades of generalized child abuse or child neglect, most especially at the hand of clerical orders, with the complicity of the State. ![]() As a matter of fact Harte’s remark casts light on the reason why Irish artists and writers may have, at least to a certain extent, left aside the portrayal of the effects of the economic boom: they seem to have been far more eager to respond in their own way to the scandals of clerical abuse that broke out in the years 2000. To a certain extent, Harte was providing an answer to Declan Kiberd’s own regrets as to the relative absence, in his opinion, of literary responses to the social changes entailed by the prosperity of the Celtic Tiger 3. 7 Carol Dell’Amico,”Anne Enright’s The Gathering: Trauma, Testimony, Memory”, New Hiberni (.)ġIn 2010, writing about Anne Enright’s The Gathering 1, Liam Harte expressed his amazement in front of what he called “the continuing proliferation of first-hand accounts of child physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, within Irish families as well as within the state’s network of industrial schools”, as well as “the plethora of recent films, plays, art works, and autobiographies that anatomize Irish childhoods from plural perspectives 2”.Gardam, “Default(ing) to the Oldest Scar: A Psychoanalytical Investigation of (.) 5 Liam Harte, Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007, op.4 Source: (Last accessed November 7 2017).3 Declan Kiberd, The Irish Writer and the World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p (.).2 Liam Harte, Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, p.1 Anne Enright, The Gathering, London, Jonathan Cape, 2007.C’est le cas de The Butcher Boy de Patrick McCabe, de The Secret Scripture de Sebastian Barry, ainsi que des romans de Benjamin Black écrits par John Banville. Cet article vise à montrer que, contrairement à cette théorie, plusieurs œuvre romanesques évoquant les scandales sexuels ainsi que la maltraitance institutionnelle, dénoncés en Irlande à partir des années 1990, empruntent leurs procédés à des genres traditionnels, comme la littérature gothique et le roman noir. Or la critique a souvent soutenu l’idée que la représentation du traumatisme dans la littérature passe nécessairement par des formes avant-gardistes. John McGahern fut un des premiers romanciers irlandais à représenter le traumatisme de l’abus sexuel, survenu particulièrement dans l’enfance, dès la publication de The Dark en 1965 mais que ce ne fut qu’avec The Gathering de Anne Enright (2007) que ce thème fut reconnu comme majeur dans la fiction contemporaine, comme le montre aussi le roman de Eimear McBride A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. ![]()
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