Mother/country
Subtitle: politics of the personal in the fiction of Colm Tóibín
By: Kathleen Costello-Sullivan
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783034307536
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Like being in another country: doubled narratives of nation and self in The south; title: Politics and the lost mother(s) in The heather blazing; title: Hiding from the other side: politics and sexuality in The story of the night; title: Nothing secret, nothing held inside: narrating absence and trauma in The blackwater lightship; title: A great withholding: fictive (auto)biography and the primacy of art in The master; title: She would have to go back: emigration and the portability of culture in Brooklyn.