{"product_id":"literary-visions-of-multicultural-ireland-9780719089282","title":"Literary visions of multicultural Ireland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary visions of multicultural Ireland is the first full-length monograph in the market to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers. The book opens with a lively, challenging preface by Prof. Declan Kiberd and is followed by eighteen essays by leading and prestigious scholars in the field of Irish studies from both sides of the Atlantic who address, in pioneering, differing and enriching ways, the emerging multiethnic character of Irish literature. Key areas of discussion are: What does it mean to be ''multicultural,'' and what are the implications of this condition for contemporary Irish writers? How has literature in Ireland responded to inward migration? Have Irish writers reflected in their work (either explicitly or implicitly) the existence of migrant communities in Ireland? If so, are elements of Irish traditional culture and community maintained or transformed? What is the social and political\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland. The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature represents, thus, an illuminating, comprehensive and challenging first full-length publication on migration to Ireland and its representation in Irish literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Asier Altuna-García de Salazar, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Estudios Irlandeses, Number 9, 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction. The immigrant in contemporary Irish literature – Pilar Villar-Argáiz\u003cbr\u003ePART I: IRISH MULTICULTURALISMS: OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES\u003cbr\u003e2. White Irish male playwrights and the immigrant experience onstage – Charlotte McIvor\u003cbr\u003e3. Strangers in a strange land?: The new Irish multicultural literature – Amanda Tucker\u003cbr\u003e4. ‘A nation of Others’: The immigrant in contemporary Irish poetry – Pilar Villar-Argáiz\u003cbr\u003e5. Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger novels – Margarita Estévez-Saá\u003cbr\u003ePART II: ‘RETHINKING IRELAND’ AS A POSTNATIONALIST COMMUNITY\u003cbr\u003e6. ‘Who is Irish?’: Roddy Doyle’s hyphenated identities – Eva Roa White\u003cbr\u003e7. ‘Our identity is our own instability’: Intercultural exchanges and the redefinition of identity in Hugo Hamilton’s Disguise and Hand in Fire – Carmen Zamorano Llena\u003cbr\u003e8. ‘Many and terrible are the roads to home’: Representations of the immigrant in the contemporary Irish short story– Anne Fogarty\u003cbr\u003e9. Writing the ‘new Irish’ into Ireland’s old narratives: The poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Mary O’Malley, and Michael Hayes – Katarzyna Poloczec\u003cbr\u003ePART III: ‘THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED’: ‘PERFORMING’ IRISHNESS THROUGH INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS\u003cbr\u003e10. ‘Marooned men in foreign cities’: Encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger’s The Ballymun Trilogy – Paula Murphy\u003cbr\u003e11. ‘Like a foreigner \/ in my native land’: Transculturality and Otherness in twenty-first-century Irish poetry – Michaela Schrage-Früh\u003cbr\u003e12. Irish multicultural epiphanies: Modernity and the recuperation of migrant memory in the writing of Hugo Hamilton – Jason King\u003cbr\u003e13. The Parts: Whiskey, tea, and sympathy – Katherine O’Donnell\u003cbr\u003e14. Hospitality and hauteur: Tourism, cross-cultural space, and ethics in Irish poetry – Charles I. Armstrong\u003cbr\u003ePART IV: GENDER AND THE CITY\u003cbr\u003e15. Towards a multiracial Ireland: Black Baby’s revision of Irish motherhood – Maureen T. Reddy\u003cbr\u003e16. Beginning history again: Gendering the foreigner in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero – Wanda Balzano\u003cbr\u003e17. ‘Goodnight and joy be with you all’: Tales of contemporary Dublin city life – Loredana Salis\u003cbr\u003e18. Mean streets, new lives: The representations of non-Irish immigrants in recent Irish crime fiction – David Clark\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037343547735,"sku":"9780719089282","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719089282.jpg?v=1750935369","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-visions-of-multicultural-ireland-9780719089282","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}