Spettralità e lavoro riproduttivo in Nothing on Earth (2016) di Conor O’Callaghan
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2785-3233/20095Keywords:
reproductive labor, Ireland, Celtic Tiger, gothic, disappearanceAbstract
In this article, I will analyze how the invisibilization of reproductive labor during the Celtic Tiger in Ireland is narrated through the use of Gothic and uncanny elements in Conor O’Callaghan’s novel Nothing on Earth (2016). After providing some theoretical coordinates on the concept of reproductive labor within the capitalist world-ecology and situating them in the Irish context, I will proceed to the text analysis. My argument will draw on the work of theorists such as Maria Mies, Silvia Federici, Jason Moore, Sharae Deckard, and Kate Houlden
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