Introduction: Silences that Speak

Abstract This chapter provides a critical overview and theoretical introduction to Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Silences that Speak . Drawing on wide range perspectives considerations silence through broad diversity themes functions, this introductory essay reclaims an unprecedented attentiveness unspoken today’s fiction. The argues contemporary writing features as multivalent multifaceted: it can function form resistance, strategy defiance, empowerment emancipation, but also way covering up stories which remain untold invisible, thus distorting or directly concealing inconvenient truths from public eye. Ultimately, book itself demonstrates, for writers, is not just constraint productive site enquiry, “speaks”.