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Book SynopsisThe first full-length monograph to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers
Trade Review"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."
(Asier Altuna-García de Salazar, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Estudios Irlandeses, Number 9, 2014)
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Table of Contents1. Introduction. The immigrant in contemporary Irish literature – Pilar Villar-Argáiz
PART I: IRISH MULTICULTURALISMS: OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES
2. White Irish male playwrights and the immigrant experience onstage – Charlotte McIvor
3. Strangers in a strange land?: The new Irish multicultural literature – Amanda Tucker
4. ‘A nation of Others’: The immigrant in contemporary Irish poetry – Pilar Villar-Argáiz
5. Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger novels – Margarita Estévez-Saá
PART II: ‘RETHINKING IRELAND’ AS A POSTNATIONALIST COMMUNITY
6. ‘Who is Irish?’: Roddy Doyle’s hyphenated identities – Eva Roa White
7. ‘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
8. ‘Many and terrible are the roads to home’: Representations of the immigrant in the contemporary Irish short story– Anne Fogarty
9. Writing the ‘new Irish’ into Ireland’s old narratives: The poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Mary O’Malley, and Michael Hayes – Katarzyna Poloczec
PART III: ‘THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED’: ‘PERFORMING’ IRISHNESS THROUGH INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
10. ‘Marooned men in foreign cities’: Encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger’s The Ballymun Trilogy – Paula Murphy
11. ‘Like a foreigner / in my native land’: Transculturality and Otherness in twenty-first-century Irish poetry – Michaela Schrage-Früh
12. Irish multicultural epiphanies: Modernity and the recuperation of migrant memory in the writing of Hugo Hamilton – Jason King
13. The Parts: Whiskey, tea, and sympathy – Katherine O’Donnell
14. Hospitality and hauteur: Tourism, cross-cultural space, and ethics in Irish poetry – Charles I. Armstrong
PART IV: GENDER AND THE CITY
15. Towards a multiracial Ireland: Black Baby’s revision of Irish motherhood – Maureen T. Reddy
16. Beginning history again: Gendering the foreigner in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero – Wanda Balzano
17. ‘Goodnight and joy be with you all’: Tales of contemporary Dublin city life – Loredana Salis
18. Mean streets, new lives: The representations of non-Irish immigrants in recent Irish crime fiction – David Clark
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