A Ghost in the Throat

A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa · 2021

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1. Unwritten female texts are everywhere

   Much of what women make is never written down: the daily labour of a woman's body and life can itself be read as a text. Once you start looking for these unrecorded works, you see them almost everywhere. Their silence carries its own layers of meaning, if you learn to attend to it.

2. A lament can also praise

   A mourning song can be at once a dirge, a drudge-song and an anthem of praise. In the same way, a life spent on others' needs, such as caring for children, can be both a burden and a source of joy. That raises the question of what such ecstatic self-giving costs.

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