Affecting Irishness
Subtitle: negotiating cultural identity within and beyond the nation
By: James Byrne, Padraig Kirwan, Michael O'Sullivan [editors].
Contributors: Byrne, James P. 1968-; Kirwan, Padraig.; O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974-
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039118304
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Irish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; Nationalism in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Group identity -- Ireland; Ireland -- Civilization -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James Byrne, Padraig Kirwan and Michael O'Sullivan; title: Theorising Irish studies. Irish studies, the postcolonial paradigm and the comparative mandate; title: / Raphael Ingelbien; title: Who's he when he's at home?: Spenser and Irishness / Oona Frawley; title: Irishness and the body: the presence of the body in the debates on poverty in the early nineteenth century / Anne-Catherine Lobo; title: Rebordering territories. The Ulster Scots and the 'greening' of Ireland: a precarious belonging? / Linda M. Hagan; title: 'Ma right insane yirwanny us Jimmy?: Irishness in modern Scottish writing / Niall O'Gallagher; title: The leid, the pratoe and the buik: northern cultural markers in the works of James Orr / Carol Baraniuk; title: No rootless colonist: John Hewitt's regionalist approach to identity / Aoileann Ni Eige; title: 'Other' Irelands. Representing travellers / Maureen T. Reddy; title: Irish multicultural fiction: metaphors of miscegenation and interracial romance / Jason King; title: Subversive identities: femininity, sexuality and 'Irishness' in novels by Edna O'Brien / Iris Lindahl-Raittila; title: Transnational Irishness. A 'sympathetic look': documentary humanism and Irish identity in Dorothea Lange's Irish country people / Justin Carville; title: Irish-American identity and the Irish language / Thomas W. Ihde; title: Shades of green and orange: Irish identity in diaspora / William H. Mulligan, Jr; title: Muldoon's palimpsestic Irishness / Florence Schneider; title: Masking, affectation and play. The voice of Pierce Brosnan / Ruth Barton; title: Shades, minstrel and majestic / Daniel Tobin; title: Self-contradiction in a small place: Anne Devlin's other at the edge of life? / Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem.