Editors:
- Includes a rich and diverse range of timely topics about minority voices in the current changing climate of Ireland
- Draws larger connections to Irish literary history and identity by discussing the presence of minority voices in Ireland, both historically and in a contemporary framework
- Incorporates essays on literature, social media, film, cultural studies, politics, religion, performance studies, and art
Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Unearthing Dissidence in the Irish Past
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Front Matter
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Sexual Minorities and Dissident Gendered Subjects
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Front Matter
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Minority Voices in Irish Public Discourse
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Back Matter
About this book
This collection examines the presence of minority communities and dissident voices in Ireland both historically and in a contemporary framework. Accordingly, the contributions explore different facets of what we term “Irish minority and dissident identities,” ranging from political agitators drowned out by mainstream narratives of nationhood, to identities differentiated from the majority in terms of ethnicity, religion, class and health; and sexual minorities that challenge heteronormative perspectives on marriage, contraception, abortion, and divorce. At a moment when transnational democracy and the rights of minorities seem to be at risk, a book of this nature seems more pressing than ever. In different ways, the essays gathered here remind us of the importance of ‘rethinking’ nationhood, by a process of denaturalisation of the supremacy of white heterosexual structures.
Reviews
“The essays here collected suggest powerfully that there are now many Irelands-within-Ireland—the nation has discovered that the best way of intensifying its identity is to multiply it. There will always be hidden Irelands in need of rediscovery but quite a few that were long inaudible are clearly heard in this challenging book.” (Declan Kiberd, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, US)
Editors and Affiliations
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Departmento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Pilar Villar-Argáiz
About the editor
Pilar Villar-Argáiz is Senior Lecturer of British and Irish Literatures in the Department of English Philology at the University of Granada, Spain. She has published extensively on contemporary Irish poetry and fiction, in relation to questions of gender, race, migration and interculturality. Her edited collections include Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Irishness on the Margins
Book Subtitle: Minority and Dissident Identities
Editors: Pilar Villar-Argáiz
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74567-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74566-4Published: 13 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09023-4Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74567-1Published: 03 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 290
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature