A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial criticism, delivering a commentary on this diverse body of work as well as positioning Irish postcolonial criticism within the wider postcolonial field.
Table of Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Ireland: ‘A Supreme Postcolonial Instance’? Field Day and Irish Postcolonial Criticism Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse Postcolonial Metacriticism – The ‘Second Wave’ Ireland, Gender and Postcolonialism Fanon’s One Big Idea: Revising Postcolonial Studies and Irish Studies Conclusion: Postcolonial Studies and Contemporary Politics Bibliography Index
About the author
EÓIN FLANNERY is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His other publications include:
Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture (2006);
Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography (2007);
Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture (2009); and
This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum Mc Cann (2009).
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