JOURNAL ARTICLE

Aisling.

  • Published In: New Literary History, 2025, v. 56, n. 2. P. 239 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Dillane, Aileen; Lionáird, Iarla Ó 3 of 3

Abstract

There are certain indigenous words that carry a considerable burden of signification within a culture, across space and time; Aisling is one such keyword. In tracing its origins, histories, sublimations, and transformations as a musicopoetic form, we illustrate the power and limitations in applying Raymond Williams's methodology to a Gaelic word and cultural concept. Aisling confronts and subverts the colonial logic of Western epistemological thought, as manifest in the original Keywords project. Aisling is understood as a "resource of hope," a native artistic response and speculative hermeneutic for a contemporaneous society beset with immense challenges and experiential ruptures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:New Literary History. 2025/04, Vol. 56, Issue 2, p239
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:0028-6087
  • DOI:10.1353/nlh.2025.a975399
  • Accession Number:189769139
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