Empire's wake
Subtitle: postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form
By: Mark Quigley
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780823245444
Subjects: English literature; Modernism (Literature); Postcolonialism in literature; Irish authors; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Rerouting Irish modernism: postcolonial aesthetics and the imperative of cosmopolitanism; title: Modernity's edge: speaking silence on the blaskets; title: Seán O'Faoláin and the end of republican realism; title: Unnaming the subject: Samuel Beckett and postcolonial absence; title: Postmodern blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the celtic tiger, and the ashes of history; title: Conclusion. Dispatches from the modernist frontier: European and Asiatic papers.