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Book SynopsisThis collection of new essays addresses a key debate in Irish studies. While it is important that new research endeavours to accommodate the new and powerful manifestations of Irishness that are evident today in our globalised economy, these considerations are often overlooked. The writers in this book seek to reconcile the established critical perspectives of Irish studies with a forward-looking critical momentum that incorporates the realities of globalisation and economic migration.
The book initiates this vital discussion by bringing together a series of provocative and thoughtful essays, from both renowned and rising international scholars, on the vicissitudes of cultural identity in a post-modern, post-colonial and post-national Ireland. By including work by leading scholars in the fields of film studies, migration and Diaspora studies, travel literature and gender studies, this collection offers a thorough twenty-first-century interrogation of Irishness and provides a timely fusion of international perspectives on Irish cultural identity.
Table of ContentsContents: Raphaël Ingelbien: Irish Studies, the Postcolonial Paradigm and the Comparative Mandate – Oona Frawley: ‘Who’s he when he’s at home?’ Spenser and Irishness – Anne-Catherine Lobo: Irishness and the Body: The Presence of the Body in the Debates on Poverty in the Early Nineteenth Century – Linda M. Hagan: The Ulster-Scots and the ‘Greening’ of Ireland: A Precarious Belonging? – Niall O’Gallagher: ‘Ma Right Insane Yirwanny Us Jimmy?’: Irishness in Modern Scottish Writing – Carol Baraniuk: The Leid, the Pratoe and the Buik: Northern Cultural Markers in the Works of James Orr – Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh: ‘No Rootless Colonist’: John Hewitt’s Regionalist Approach to Identity – Maureen T. Reddy: Representing Travellers – Jason King: Irish Multicultural Fiction: Metaphors of Miscegenation and Interracial Romance – Iris Lindahl-Raittila: Subversive Identities: Femininity, Sexuality and ‘Irishness’ in Novels by Edna O’Brien – Justin Carville: A ‘Sympathetic Look’: Documentary Humanism and Irish Identity in Dorothea Lange’s ‘Irish Country People’ – Thomas W. Ihde: Irish-American Identity and the Irish Language – William H. Mulligan, Jr: Shades of Green and Orange: Irish Identity in Diaspora – Florence Schneider: Muldoon’s Palimpsestic Irishness – Ruth Barton: The Voice of Pierce Brosnan – Daniel Tobin: Shades, Minstrel and Majestic – Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem: Self-Contradiction in a Small Place: Anne Devlin’s ‘Other at the Edge of Life’.
