Literary visions of multicultural Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

The immigrant in contemporary Irish literature
Redaktion: Villar-Argaiz, Pilar

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Produktbeschreibung

Now available in paperback, this pioneering collection of essays deals with the topic of how Irish literature responds to the presence of non-Irish immigrants in Celtic-Tiger and post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland. The book assembles an international group of 18 leading and prestigious academics in the field of Irish studies from both sides of the Atlantic, including Declan Kiberd, Anne Fogarty and Maureen T. Reddy, amongst others.

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 efficacy of these intercultural artistic visions?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784992125
• Artikelnr.: 57473539

Autorenporträt

Pilar Villar-Argáiz is a Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Literature at the University of Granada, Spain

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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 Index