- Auxiliadora Pérez Vides: “The Religion-Class Interface in John Banville’s Crime Fiction as Benjamin Black”
- Symposium organised by the Faculty of Theology, Philosophy and Music of Dublin City University
Description of the activity.
In this paper, I argue that in the six and four novels that, respectively, comprise the Quirke and the Quirke-Strafford series published by John Banville as Benjamin Black, readers become acquainted with the author’s growing commitment to tackle the religion-class interface that affected substantially the Irish cultural order of 1950s Ireland. The author also raising questions about the extent to which they continue to bear upon it in the contemporary scene. Much of the fictional universe created for the whole series responds to his views on how religious tenets in Ireland have been naturalised and normalised through a rhetorics that, in turn, depended highly on class discourses.