ABSTRACT This article examines Irish writer Alan McMonagle’s use of dark satire in his debut novel Ithaca (2017), which presents the story of Jason, a vulnerable child who meets another of society’s scapegoats, an unnamed “girl at the swamp”, and whose friendship offers an escape from the misery of life in the bog hole they call home. McMonagle’s invective finds external expression in his comic blasting of social constructions based on gender and class stereotypes in the Irish literary tradition. His engagement with the absurd sometimes takes the form of humorous and ribald satire, and sometimes lends his work tones of existential tragedy. The purpose of this article is to highlight his mediating role as a satirical writer who, in holding a mirror up to politics, reveals the psychological pain of Irish society and offers an original perspective on social inclusion and change in the Irish context.

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刻板印象爆破：艾伦·麦克莫纳格（Alan McMonagle）作为讽刺作家和远见卓识者

摘要 本文考察了爱尔兰作家艾伦·麦克莫纳格 (Alan McMonagle) 在其处女作《伊萨卡》(2017) 中对黑色讽刺的使用，讲述了杰森的故事，杰森是一个脆弱的孩子，遇到了另一个社会的替罪羊，一个无名的“沼泽女孩”，以及他们的友谊在他们称之为家的沼泽洞中提供了逃离生活苦难的机会。麦克蒙纳格的谩骂在他对基于爱尔兰文学传统中性别和阶级刻板印象的社会建构的喜剧性爆破中找到了外在表达。他与荒诞的接触有时以幽默和粗俗的讽刺的形式出现，有时则赋予他存在主义悲剧的作品基调。这篇文章的目的是突出他作为讽刺作家的中介作用，他举着一面镜子反映政治，