ABSTRACT

This article examines a new strand of speculative Irish fiction that has emerged in the post-Celtic Tiger era. Focusing on novels by Kevin Barry, Sarah Davis-Goff, Catherine Prasifka and Danny Denton, I analyse how the speculative mode, with its ontological obliquities and temporal distortions, is particularly commensurate to the environmental and socio-economic complexities and predicaments facing Ireland at present. Specifically, these novels centre on problems and crises that have national and regional manifestations, but are ultimately global in scale and extent: ecological degradation, sea-level rise, food scarcity, pandemics, and the social and psychic effects of neoliberalism and surveillance capitalism. In coming to terms with such issues, particularly the hyperobject of climate change, these novels are often at their most effective in moments that de-privilege anthropocentric perspectives by establishing existential intimacies and political affinities with the natural and non-human realms.

摘要

本文探讨了后凯尔特老虎时代出现的一股新的爱尔兰推理小说。我以凯文·巴里（Kevin Barry）、莎拉·戴维斯-戈夫（Sarah Davis-Goff）、凯瑟琳·普拉西夫卡（Catherine Prasifka）和丹尼·丹顿（Danny Denton）的小说为重点，分析了具有本体论倾斜和时间扭曲的投机模式如何与爱尔兰目前面临的环境和社会经济复杂性和困境特别相称。 。具体来说，这些小说以具有国家和地区表现的问题和危机为中心，但最终在规模和范围上是全球性的：生态退化、海平面上升、粮食短缺、流行病以及新自由主义和监视资本主义的社会和心理影响。在解决这些问题时，特别是气候变化的超级对象，