ABSTRACT
Anne Enright’s fifth novel, The Forgotten Waltz , shares with other Post-Tiger fiction a focus on economic disintegration. The Kryptonite ring thus serves as a sort of anti-capitalist currency, ostensibly worthless, but imbued with the power to render Gina vulnerable, to transport her back to the past and to fashion alternate and far more sustaining post-human imaginaries than those offered by the Tiger Supereconomy. Gina travels on a musical time-machine through memory to the reimagining of the forgotten waltz, the formative experiences of her life and the memories that make her who she is. Music, recuperation of a troubled family past through memory, dance, and the uncanny presence of Evie all pave the way for Gina to begin the process of understanding and healing from her many emotional wounds, and, perhaps, the formation of new familial, but non-normative, bonds.
