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Author Brannigan, John

Title Race in modern Irish literature and culture / John Brannigan
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 1922, Ulysses, and the Irish Race Congress -- Chapter 2 Face Value: Racial Typology and Irish Modernism -- Chapter 3 8216;Aliens in Ireland8217;: Nation-building and the Ethics of Hospitality -- Chapter 4 8216;Ireland, and Black!8217;: The Cultural Politics of Racial Figuration -- Conclusion: Imagining the 8216;New Hibernia8217; -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary For decades Ireland presented itself as the land of hospitality, until the 1990s, when the 'Celtic Tiger' exposed its racist underbelly. In Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture, John Brannigan argues that race and racism have longer histories in the Irish state, histories which have often been exposed and critiqued by Irish writers and artists. He revisits the role of racial ideologies in the foundation and development of the state, offering original historical insights, and inspired new readings of literary and cultural works ranging from Ulysses to The Commitments. Key Features Provides new research on the social history of racial ideologies and racist expressions in the Irish state since 1922 Offers new readings of Irish cultural productions and literary texts (by James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Liam O'Flaherty, Kate O'Brien, Edna O'Brien, Brendan Behan, James Plunkett, Paul Durcan, Austin Clarke, Aidan Higgins, Denis Johnston, and others) emphasising how they engage with the histories of Irish racism and raciology Demonstrates how a new understanding of the constitutive role of race and racism in modern Irish culture might necessitate a revision of the dominant precepts and trends in contemporary Irish studies Addresses the significance of the social and cultural history of race and racism in twentieth-century Ireland for the post-'Celtic Tiger' era
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Race in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Multiculturalism -- Ireland
Racism -- Ireland
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
English literature
English literature -- Irish authors
Literature
Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism in literature
Race in literature
Race relations
Racism
Kulturelle Identität
Literatur
Rasse
18.05 English literature.
Racial problem.
English.
Literature.
Literatur
Englisch
Motiv (Literatur)
Ethnische Beziehung
Kulturelle Identität
SUBJECT Ireland -- In literature
Ireland -- Race relations
Subject Ireland
Irland
Ireland.
Irland
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748640959
0748640959
9780748651801
0748651802
9786612703119
6612703113
1282703110
9781282703117