Redefinitions of Irish Identity : A Postnationalist Approach.
Title:
Redefinitions of Irish Identity : A Postnationalist Approach.
Author:
Gilsenan Nordin, Irene.
ISBN:
9783035300215
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Series:
Cultural Identity Studies ; v.12
Cultural Identity Studies
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements vii -- Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Carmen Zamorano Llena Introduction 1 -- Michael Böss Irish neutrality: From nationalism to postnationalism 17 -- Billy Gray 'Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet': Hubert Butler's perspective on community, nationalism and a globalised Ireland 37 -- Miriam O'Kane Mara The search for global Irishness in Nuala O'Faolain 63 -- Seán Crosson Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: Representing Gaelic games in Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the Ash (1987) 85 -- Damien Shortt 'Who put the ball in the English net?': The privatisation of Irish postnationalism in Dermot Bolger's In High Germany 103 -- Matt McGuire The postmodern promise of Robert McLiam Wilson's fiction 125 -- Carmen Zamorano Llena Glocal identities in a postnationalist Ireland as reflected through contemporary Irish poetry 141 -- David Cregan Divided subjectivities and modern Irish masculinities: 'The makings of a man' 159 -- Paula Murphy 'Scattering us like seed': Dermot Bolger's postnationalist Ireland 181 -- Grace Tighe Ledwidge 'What ish my nation?': Nationalism and neo-nationalism in the novels of Colm Tóibín 201 -- Catherine Rees The postnationalist crisis: Theatrical representations of Irish anxiety, identity and narrative in the plays of Martin McDonagh and Marie Jones 221 -- Irene Gilsenan Nordin Elegy and celebration: Landscape, place and dwelling in th epoetry of Moya Cannon 243 -- Ulf Dantanus The inner life of the nation: Religion, the otherworld and death in contemporary Irish drama 267 -- Notes on contributors 293 -- Index 297.
Abstract:
Recently, the issue of postnationalism has encouraged intense debate, which has been reflected in the publication of numerous books and articles in various fields of study, including politics, history, philosophy and anthropology. However, the work produced in Irish literary criticism has been much sparser. This collection of essays aims to fill this gap and provide new insights into the debate on postnationalism in Ireland from the perspective of narrative writing. The book collects thirteen essays by academics from various countries, including Ireland, the United States and Sweden. It analyses the concepts of the postnational and the postnationalist in relation to globalisation, as well as the debate that postnationalist discourse has opened in various fields of knowledge, and its definitions and implications in the contemporary Irish historical and literary context. The literary forms under consideration include essay writing, drama, fiction, autobiography, film and poetry. The authors whose work is analysed here include Dermot Bolger, Hubert Butler, Ciaran Carson, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Marie Jones, Derek Mahon, Frank McGuinness, Robert McLiam Wilson, Conor McPherson, Sinead Morrissey, Nuala O'Faolain and David Wheatley.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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