It’s All About the Weans: A Survey of Troubled Procreation and Hope in the Contemporary Northern Irish Mystery Thriller
Jacek MYDLA
Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, Department of Philology, University of Silesia in Katowice, ul. Gen. S. Grota-Roweckiego 5, 41-205 Sosnowiec, Poland , PolandAbstract
This article relates the idea of hope to themes of motherhood and childhood as handled by contemporary Northern Irish crime authors. The main part of the article discusses the theme of pregnancy in Claire McGowan’s Paula Maguire mystery thrillers.
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Northern Ireland, mystery thriller, the Troubles, pregnancy, maternity, hopeMYDLA, J. (2020). „Maleństwa – tylko one się liczą”. Wątki trudnej prokreacji i nadziei we współczesnym północnoirlandzkim thrillerze kryminalnym. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 32(4 (128). https://doi.org/10.12887/32-2019-4-128-11
Jacek MYDLA
Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, Department of Philology, University of Silesia in Katowice, ul. Gen. S. Grota-Roweckiego 5, 41-205 Sosnowiec, Poland
Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, Department of Philology, University of Silesia in Katowice, ul. Gen. S. Grota-Roweckiego 5, 41-205 Sosnowiec, Poland
