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Book SynopsisThis study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly originalworld-facingrather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in the last half century. The author argues that in a late capitalist world defined by volatile economic and cultural globalizations, the Irish novel is struggling to imagine new ways to narrate the country''s relationship to the world capitalist system and to find new place for Irish writing in theworld literary system. Looking at a rapidly-changing Ireland in a rapidly-changing international order, Joe Cleary offers new readings of novels by Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Joseph O''Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett.
Trade Review'… an essential account of how and why we have arrived where we are.' Matthew Eatough, LA Review of Books
Table of ContentsIntroduction: revaluations of Irish expatriate fiction; 1. After America: the Irish transatlantic novel in the program era; 2. Between Byzantium and Beijing: Asia from the Celtic to the American twilight; 3. Monstrous modernity of the global south; 4. Elusive Europes: new futures, old traumas?; Conclusion: the weight of the world.
