Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Oct 18, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Emily Van Duyne |Doireann Ní Ghríofa |Jo Lou |Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Whether we like it or not, literary history tends to follow a known path. In high school, we read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and we are told this is the definitive book about The Dust Bowl. In college, we are introduced to T.S. Eliot’s long poem “The Waste Land” and told that this work is an example of high modernism.