Transatlantic solidarities
Subtitle: Irish nationalism and Caribbean poetics
By: Michael G. Malouf.
Series: New world studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780813927794; 9780813927800; 9780813928050
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative -- Irish and Caribbean (English); Literature, Comparative -- Caribbean (English) and Irish; Nationalism and literature -- Ireland -- History; Irish -- Caribbean Area -- History; Decolonization in literature; Ireland -- In literature; Caribbean Area -- In literature
Description: "Offering a new narrative of cultural influence and performance, this work specifically demonstrates the formative role of Irish nationalist discourse - expressed in the works of Eamon de Valera, George Bernard Shaw, and James Joyce - in the transnational political and aesthetic self-fashioning of three influential Caribbean figures: Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and Derek Walcott. It provides both an innovative historical and literary methodology for reading cross-cultural relations between two postcolonial cultures and a literary and political history that can account for the recent diversity of the field of anglophone world literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: other Emerald Isles; title: Froudacity and freedom: Ireland and Jamaica in the British Empire, 1838-1898; title: Sovereignty at home and abroad: Marcus Garvey; title: How black reads green: Claude McKay; title: After a sundering: Derek Walcott; title: Feeling éire(y): on Irish-Caribbean popular culture; title: Epilogue: going to Sligoville.