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Book SynopsisFrom the perspective of Irish Studies, this book seeks to interrogate the discourses and processes that produce and reproduce «Ireland’s cultural politics of in/difference», and its effects both in the material experience of Othered subjects and in their representation in cultural and literary forms. At the same time, it also examines strategies of dissent or resistance and possible alternatives that are being articulated both in the socio-political and the cultural arena, contributing to our communal thinking and imaginative creation of more effective forms of building community based on solid equity and social justice grounds.
Table of ContentsContents: – Introduction – Systemic Crime and Social Disaffection in Benjamin Black’s Quirke Series: A Struggle for Difference – Erin’s Sons and Decent Daughters: The Biopolitics of Rural Masculinities in Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn (1948) – Anne Griffin’s When All Is Said (2019): A Different Haunting Ageing Masculinity in Irish Fiction – The Guts (2013): The Quintessence of Roddy Doyle’s Art of Fiction – ‘Girls just wanna have fun’: Female Adolescence and Joyful Insurrection in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Dancers Dancing (1999) and Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls (2018– ) – Girls and Women in Rosaleen McDonagh’s Mainstream: Celebrating Difference – Bridging Differences or Burning Bridges: Transforming the Chorus in Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy – Death- worlds and Necropolitics of Abjection in Emma Donoghue’s ‘Counting the Days’ – From Virtual to Aborted Citizens: Childbirth and Citizenship in the Republic of Ireland – ‘New energies’ on ‘the threshold of an old art’: Democratic Sparkles in Contemporary Irish Poetry – The Violent Othering of Women and Animals in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s and Luz Pichel’s Poetry – ‘Cork is very much male – and so is working class’: An Interview with Lisa McInerney.
