Translation As Homemaking in “A Ghost in the Throat” – Chicago Review of Books

Translation As Homemaking in “A Ghost in the Throat” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat is a genre-bending autofictional book about one woman’s “crush”—on a poem written three centuries ago. In the narrator’s first encounter with the “Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire,” written by the eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill after her husband was murdered, and while she was pregnant … Read more