Violence, politics and textual interventions in Northern Ireland
By: Peter Mahon
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780230576438
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Blood, shit and tears: the textual reinscription of sacrifice, ritual and victimhood in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal; title: The law's terrifying double: "Legal Panic" in Glenn Patterson's That which was; title: Family matters: Jim Sheridan's In the name of the father and Terry George's Some mother's son; title: States of desire in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto; title: "Something like God": shit, orifices, and bodily signifiers in Louise Dean's This human season.