Violence, politics and textual interventions in Northern Ireland
By: Peter Mahon.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230576438
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Political and social views; Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Literature and society -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Political violence in literature; Social conflict in literature; Violence in literature; Northern Ireland -- Intellectual life; Northern Ireland -- In literature
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.