‘The Soul Shone Through His Face’: Roger Casement in Works of Fiction

Authors

  • Mariana Bolfarine Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v18i0.3518

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss the issue of the representation of the Irish revolutionary Roger David Casement in works of fiction and radio
drama under the light of cultural trauma theory. It will investigate the way in which the image of Roger Casement can be associated with traumatic events that have sealed Anglo-Irish relations in his life, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Jamie ONeill’s At Swim, Two Boys (2001); in his trial in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Dream of the Celt, and finally, and in his afterlife, in David Rudkin’s Cries from Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin and in the Annabel Davis-Goff’s The Fox’s Walk.


Keywords: Roger Casement, trauma, representation, history, fiction.

Author Biography

  • Mariana Bolfarine, Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP)

    Mariana Bolfarine holds a PhD (2015) on fictional  representations of the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement from the University of São Paulo, and has been a research fellow at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth – NUIM (2013-2014). Dr. Bolfarine is currently teaching at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP). She is also a researcher of the WB yeats Chair of Irish Studies and a member of the board of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI). She has translated the following books into Portuguese: Roger Casement in Brazil: Rubber, the Amazon and the Atlantic World 1884-1916, by Angus Mitchell, edited by Dr. Laura Izarra (2010) and the Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (2016), co-edited with Dr. Laura Izarra.

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Published

2016-11-17

Issue

Vol. 18 (2016): ABEI Journal 18

Section

Roger Casement and the Centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising

How to Cite

Bolfarine, M. (2016). ‘The Soul Shone Through His Face’: Roger Casement in Works of Fiction. ABEI Journal, 18, 53-62. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v18i0.3518