Language, identity and liberation in contemporary Irish literature
By: Jennifer Keating-Miller.
Series: Language, discourse, society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780230237506
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Language and languages in literature; English language -- Ireland -- Discourse analysis; English language -- Political aspects -- Ireland; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; Ireland -- Languages -- Political aspects; Ireland -- In literature
Description: "Irelands history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the regions tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Irelands everyday life and speech"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgementsPreface A 'Habitable Grief'?: The Legacy of Cultural and Political Strife in Ireland's Contentious Language SystemsA Republic of One: Individuality, Autonomy and the Question of Irish Collectivity in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy's A Goat's SongWriting Republicanism: A Betrayal of Entrenched Tribalism in Belfast's Own Vernacular The Misfit Chorus Line: Ireland from the Margins in Patrick McCabe's Call Me the BreezeCasting Cathleen: Femininity and Motherhood on the Contemporary Irish StageWorks Cited Bibliography Index AcknowledgementsPreface A 'Habitable Grief'?: The Legacy of Cultural and Political Strife in Ireland's Contentious Language SystemsA Republic of One: Individuality, Autonomy and the Question of Irish Collectivity in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy's A Goat's SongWriting Republicanism: A Betrayal of Entrenched Tribalism in Belfast's Own Vernacular The Misfit Chorus Line: Ireland from the Margins in Patrick McCabe's Call Me the BreezeCasting Cathleen: Femininity and Motherhood on the Contemporary Irish StageWorks Cited Bibliography Index.