Joe Cleary

Literature, Partition and the Nation-State

Herausgeber: Brennan, Timothy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780521657327
• ISBN-10: 0521657326
• Artikelnr.: 21687958

Autorenporträt

Joe Cleary is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth where he teaches Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Literary Theory, and Renaissance Drama. He has published widely on Irish literature and film and on contemporary political and cultural theory in books and journals such as The South Atlantic Quarterly and Textual Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I: 1. Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies
of self-determination in the 'Badlands of Modernity'; 2. Estranged states:
national literatures, modernity and tradition, and the elaboration of
partitionist identities; Part II: 3. 'Forked-Tongued on the Border Pitt':
partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the
Northern Irish conflict; 4. Agonies of the potentates: journeys to the
frontier in the novels of Amos Oz; 5. The meaning of disaster: the novel
and the stateless nation in Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun.