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Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Jennifer Keating-Miller

    1. Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. A “Habitable Grief”?: The Legacy of Cultural and Political Strife in Ireland’s Contentious Language Systems

    • Jennifer Keating-Miller
    Pages 1-23

  3. A Republic of One: Individuality, Autonomy and the Question of Irish Collectivity in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy’s A Goat’s Song

    • Jennifer Keating-Miller
    Pages 24-57

  4. Writing Republicanism: A Betrayal of Entrenched Tribalism in Belfast’s Own Vernacular

    • Jennifer Keating-Miller
    Pages 58-99

  5. The Misfit Chorus Line: Ireland from the Margins in Patrick McCabe’s Call Me the Breeze

    • Jennifer Keating-Miller
    Pages 100-135

  6. Casting Cathleen: Femininity and Motherhood on the Contemporary Irish Stage

    • Jennifer Keating-Miller
    Pages 136-175

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 176-190
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About this book

Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech.

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Winner of the 2010 Michael J. Dukan prize for Best Book in Irish Language and Culture from the American Conference for Irish Studies

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  • Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Jennifer Keating-Miller

About the author

JENNIFER KEATING-MILLER was born in Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland but moved to California in 1988. She studied English and History at the University of Rochester, USA, graduating Magna cum Laude with Highest Distinction and Research Honors. She earned a Doctorate in English at the University of Pittsburgh in 2009. She will begin to work at Carnegie Mellon University in June 2009.

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