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National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature

Unbecoming Irishness

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Luz Mar González-Arias

    1. University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

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  • Focuses both on contemporary Irish writers who are widely read, and those which are yet to receive much critical attention
  • Includes contributions from well known figures, such as scholars Ciarán Benson and Patricia Coughlan, acclaimed novelist Lia Mills and one of Ireland's leading abstract painters, Bridget Flannery
  • Takes an interdisciplinary approach of interest to scholars working in film, linguistics, ecocriticism, disability studies and medical humanities

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. The Imperfect as a Site of Contestation in Contemporary Ireland

    • Luz Mar González-Arias
    Pages 1-17

  4. Disruptions of Religion, Family and Marriage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Hard Times and Sibling Songs: Sibling Relations in Contemporary Irish Literature

      • Patricia Coughlan
      Pages 67-82

    3. Psychological Resilience in Emma Donoghue’s Room

      • Marisol Morales Ladrón
      Pages 83-98

    4. The Fallen Sex Revisited: Imperfect Celibacy in Mary Rose Callaghan’s A Bit of a Scandal

      • Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides
      Pages 99-112

  5. Ex-Centric Bodies and Disquieting Spaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Form, Deformity: On Pathology and Poetics in Paul Muldoon

      • Rui Carvalho Homem
      Pages 115-129

    3. Imperfection as a Chance: Matrixial Borderspaces in Anne Enright

      • Hedwig Schwall
      Pages 131-145

    4. Monstrous Mothers and Mutant Others: Bodies out of Place in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero

      • Aida Rosende Pérez
      Pages 147-162

    5. Changing Places: The Imperfect City in Contemporary Irish Poetry

      • Lucy Collins
      Pages 163-180

  6. Stereotypes and the Distortion of Irishness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Irish Drinking Culture on the Screen

      • Rosa González-Casademont
      Pages 183-199

    3. Treading the Boards? Be Sure to Put on the Right Brogues! The Actor’s Search for the Perfect Irish Accent

      • Shane Walshe
      Pages 201-217

  7. Unbecoming Irish Literature: The Inside Gaze

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. ‘Absolutely Imperfect’: In Conversation with Lia Mills

      • Luz Mar González-Arias
      Pages 221-238
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About this book

This book is about the role that the imperfect, the disquieting and the dystopian are currently playing in the construction of Irish identities. All the essays assess identity issues that require urgent examination, problematize canonical definitions of Irishness and, above all, look at the ways in which the artistic output of the country has been altered by the Celtic Tiger phenomenon and its subsequent demise. Recent narrative from Ireland, principally published in the twenty-first century and/or at the end of the 1990s, is dealt with extensively. The authors examined include Eavan Boland, Mary Rose Callaghan, Peter Cunningham, Emma Donoghue, Anne Enright, Emer Martin, Lia Mills, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Bernard O’Donoghue, Peter Sirr and David Wheatley.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

    Luz Mar González-Arias

About the editor

Luz Mar González-Arias is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literatures at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She is the author of two monographs: Otra Irlanda (2000), and Cuerpo, mito y teoría feminista (1999). She researches in the areas of body theory and Medical Humanities as applied to the work of contemporary Irish women poets.

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