Overview
- 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)
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The Tiger and Beyond: Political, Social and Literary Fissures
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Disruptions of Religion, Family and Marriage
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Ex-Centric Bodies and Disquieting Spaces
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Stereotypes and the Distortion of Irishness
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Unbecoming Irish Literature: The Inside Gaze
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature
Book Subtitle: Unbecoming Irishness
Editors: Luz Mar González-Arias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47630-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47629-6Published: 09 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47630-2Published: 20 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 248
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature