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Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life (2016)
Book Chapter
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life. In A. Babka, M. Bidwell-Steiner, & W. Mueller-Funk (Eds.), Narrative im Bruch (223-238). V&R unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737005968.223

Biography – ‘the story of a person told by someone else’1 – brings life into narrative form. In this article, I consider some of the fractures and failures that can attend this process, the places where the biographical text reveals life’s resistance... Read More about Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life.

Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia (2016)
Journal Article
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia. Cultural Dynamics, 28(1), 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015623389

Formations such as gangs stand in a complex relationship to other, more conventional or socially normative groupings and collectives, such as the family. This article probes the gang’s function as a kind of alternative family and as a lens through wh... Read More about Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia.

Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész (2016)
Journal Article
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 37(3), 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3599315

If human reproduction is a realm of future-making practice, its refusal or absence effects a reconceptualization of the future. The article examines three very different refusals of the child: the idealist antinatalism of Otto Weininger's Sex and Cha... Read More about Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész.

Sex in Imagined Spaces. Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch. (2010)
Book
Ní Dhúill, C. (2010). Sex in Imagined Spaces. Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch. Legenda

From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either repro... Read More about Sex in Imagined Spaces. Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch..