Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideology and practice of off...

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Other Authors: Parker, Michael, 1949-, Brewster, Scott (Reader in English literature)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Changing history: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990 / Michael Parker
  • Flying high? Culture, criticism, theory since 1990 / Scott Brewster
  • Home places: Irish Drama since 1990 / Clare Wallace and Ondřej Pílný
  • Women on stage in the 1990s: foregrounding the body and performance in plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr / Mária Kurdi
  • The stuff of tragedy? Representations of Irish political leaders in the 'Haughey' plays of Carr, Barry and Breen / Anthony Roche
  • New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage / Martine Pelletier
  • Scattered and diverse: Irish poetry since 1990 / Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh
  • Architectural metaphors: representations of the house in the poetry of Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke / Lucy Collins
  • The places I go back to: familiarisation and estrangement in Seamus Heaney's later poetry / Joanna Cowper-- Neither here nor there: new generation Northern Irish poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) / Michael Parker
  • Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again: Irish fiction and autobiography since 1990 / Liam Harte
  • Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel / Heidi Hansson
  • Sacred spaces: writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern's Memoir, Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People, Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels) / Stephen Regan
  • Secret gardens: unearthing the truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road / Vivian Valvano Lynch
  • What's it like being Irish?: The return of the repressed in Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer / Jennifer M. Jeffers
  • Remembering to forget: Northern Irish fiction after the troubles / Neal Alexander
  • What do I say when they wheel out their dead?: The representation of violence in Northern Irish art / Shane Alcobia-Murphy.