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Narrating the Nonplace: Landscape, Memory, and Identity in the Bodkin series and Louise O’Neill’s After the Silence

Authors: Bubíková Šárka

Year: 2025

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Narrating the Nonplace: Landscape, Memory, and Identity in the Bodkin series and Louise O’Neill’s After the Silence	Drawing on Mirjam Gebauer et al’s (2015) reinterpretation of Marc Augé’s concept of the nonplace and Kim Toft Hansen and Valentina Re’s (2023) notion of peripheral location, my presentation explored how narrative representations of Irish rural landscapes in Louise O’Neill’s crime novel After the Silence (2020) and the Netflix crime series Bodkin (2024) evoke nonplace through physical marginality and affective dislocation. Both narratives are set in remote insular and coastal locations and center on a renewed media interest in an old, unsolved crime. The analysis highlighted the tension between the imagined pastoral periphery, steeped in history and identity, and the lived reality of marginalization and moral ambiguity.	nonplace; periphery; crime novel; crime series; Bodkin; Louise O’Neill; After the Silence