On the Postnationality of Sally Rooney's Normal People
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This paper explores the different ways Sally Rooney's Normal People deconstructs the nationalist inflections inhered in the Irish literary tradition, a deconstruction which accordingly reveals new postnationality concerns. As one of the preeminent literary talents of this early 21st century, Rooney grew up during the rise of the Celtic Tiger and after fall – in short, she witnessed first-hand how Ireland survived the debt crisis to become the developed, open society that it is today. Postnationalism calls for a cosmopolitan solidarity beyond the affective ties of nationhood, language, place, and heritage. This alteration is part and parcel of the process of globalization; thus it corresponds with both the modern Irish national identity and the new types of literariness reflected in Normal People. By suffusing her writing with an artful, internationalized language style, Rooney transcends the confined traditional Irish narrative of old. Moreover, her supernational motifs allow for a sustained postnational critique of neoliberalism. This is especially cogent in how she describes the way digital natives are both transnationally linked and simultaneously haunted by boundaryless, instantaneous information. To these ends, Normal People breaks from traditional Irish national literary forms to look at how the universalized series of abstract norms that dominate our digital era present new opportunities, and new problems.
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This paper explores the different ways Sally Rooney's Normal People deconstructs the nationalist inflections inhered in the Irish literary tradition, a deconstruction which accordingly reveals new postnationality concerns. As one of the preeminent literary talents of this early 21st century, Rooney grew up during the rise of the Celtic Tiger and after fall – in short, she witnessed first-hand how Ireland survived the debt crisis to become the developed, open society that it is today. Postnationalism calls for a cosmopolitan solidarity beyond the affective ties of nationhood, language, place, and heritage. This alteration is part and parcel of the process of globalization; thus it corresponds with both the modern Irish national identity and the new types of literariness reflected in Normal People. By suffusing her writing with an artful, internationalized language style, Rooney transcends the confined traditional Irish narrative of old. Moreover, her supernational motifs allow for a sustained postnational critique of neoliberalism. This is especially cogent in how she describes the way digital natives are both transnationally linked and simultaneously haunted by boundaryless, instantaneous information. To these ends, Normal People breaks from traditional Irish national literary forms to look at how the universalized series of abstract norms that dominate our digital era present new opportunities, and new problems.
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