Description
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents, and also considers creative work in film, visual culture and the performing arts. -- .
Trade ReviewWith its diverse array of international scholarship, critical overviews and textual analyses, Irish Literature Since 1990 provides a path-breaking assessment of trends and themes in representations of postnational Ireland. A valuable resource for both teachers and students. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
I: Changing History: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990 - Michael Parker
II: Flying High? Culture, Criticism, Theory since 1990 - Scott Brewster
Part One: Drama
1. ‘Home Places: Irish Drama since 1990’ - Clare Wallace and Ondrej Pilny
2. ‘Foregrounding the Body and Performance in Plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr - Maria Kurdi
3. ‘The Stuff of Tragedy? Representations of Irish Political Leaders in the
‘Haughey’ Plays of Carr, Barry and Breen - Anthony Roche
4. ‘New Articulations of Irishness and Otherness on the Contemporary Irish Stage’ - Martine Pelletier
Part Two: Poetry
5. ‘Scattered and Diverse: Irish Poetry Since 1990’ - Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh
6. Architectural Metaphors: Representations of the House in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní
Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke’ - Lucy Collins
7. ‘The places I go back to’: Familiarisation and Making Strange in Seamus
Heaney’s Later Poetry - Joanna Cowper
8. ‘Neither Here Nor There’: New Generation Northern Irish Poets (Sinead Morrissey
and Nick Laird) - Michael Parker
Part Three: Fiction
9. ‘Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again’: Irish Fiction and
Autobiography since 1990 - Liam Harte
10. Anne Enright and Postnationalism in the Contemporary Irish Novel - Heidi Hansson
11. Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark, John Walsh’s The Falling Angels and John McGahern’s Memoir - Stephen Regan
12. Secret Gardens: Unearthing the Truth in Patrick O’Keeffe’s The Hill Road - Vivian Valvano Lynch
13. ‘What’s it like being Irish?’: The Return of the Repressed in Roddy Doyle’s Paula Spencer - Jennifer M. Jeffers
14. Remembering to Forget: Northern Irish Fiction after the Troubles - Neal Alexander
Part Four : After Words
15. ‘What Do I Say When They Wheel out Their Dead?’: The Representation of
Violence in Northern Irish Art - Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Notes on contributors
Index
