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“Down-and-Outs, Subways and Suburbs: Subversion in Robert McLiam Wilson's Ripley Bogle (1989) and Colum McCann's This Side of Brightness (1998)”

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The notion of subversion that interests me in this article, should not therefore be understood in its political revolutionary meaning but rather more literally as version or view, in the sense that both novels present the reader with two versions from the underground, two versions from homeless voices, victims of exclusion. The reader is left wondering about the version of the world voiced out. The versions that emerge, – the subversions of the topside – need to be rewritten so as to fit reality and truth. On the whole, it is the very process of emerging that is at the source of both Ripley and Treefrog’s respective re-creations, as if their Irish identities first needed to take shape through a subversive voice before being given a chance to emerge newly and fully bloom out in the open.
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hal-01913551 , version 1 (19-11-2018)

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Marie Mianowski. “Down-and-Outs, Subways and Suburbs: Subversion in Robert McLiam Wilson's Ripley Bogle (1989) and Colum McCann's This Side of Brightness (1998)”. Rodopi. Sub-versions: Transnational Readings of Modern Irish Literature. Ciaran Ross, ed., pp.87-100, 2010, 9789042028289 9042028289 9789042028296 9042028297. ⟨hal-01913551⟩
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