Title: Enemies of empire : new perspectives on imperialism, literature and historiography /
Authors: Flannery, Eóin.; Mitchell, Angus.
Publisher: Four Courts Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Imperialism.; Imperialism in literature.; Postcolonialism.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Ireland Historiography.
Contents: Introduction: empire, literature, history / Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell -- Fasting for the public: Irish and Indian sources of Marion Wallace Dunlop's 1909 hunger strike / Joseph Lennon -- Roger Casement: the evolution of an enemy of empire -- I / Angus Mitchell -- 'We are of necessity anti-imperialists': Irish republicans and empire, 1922-39 / Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin -- Erskine Childrers: the evolution of an enemy of empire -- II / Brian P. Murphy -- Fraudesia: the British South Africa Company and its enemies / Stephen Donovan -- Transient constructs: Soviet monuments and those of their enemies / Talinn Grigor -- Offshore Irelands; or, Hy-Brazil hybridized: utopian colonies and anti-colonial utopias, 1641-1760 / Michael Griffin -- The use of Hiberno-English as a mouthpiece for Irish identity in the Irish Theatre: Synge's The playboy of the western world and the drama of Martin McDonagh / Róisín Ní Ghairbhí -- The language of empire and the empire of language: Joyce and the return of the postcolonial repressed / Eugene O'Brien -- Collateral language: empire, theory and idioms of authority / Eóin Flannery -- The limits of 'Irish studies': historicism, culturalism, paternalism / Linda Connolly -- Is the ʻpost' in ʻpost-totalitarian' the ʻpost' in ʻpostcolonial'? / Michael Kilburn.