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Ireland in Proximity History, Gender and Space
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ireland in Proximity surveys and develops the expanding field of Irish Studies, reviewing existing debates within the discipline and providing new avenues for exploration. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches, this impressive collection of essays makes an innovative contribution to three areas of current, and often contentious, debate within Irish Studies. This... Read more
Notes on contributors, Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I: History, 1. Introduction, 2. Nationalism and revisionism: ambiviolences and dissensus, 3. ‘The Whole People of Ireland’: patriotism, national identity and nationalism in eighteenth-century Ireland, 4. Re-writing the Famine: witnessing in crisis, PART II: Gender, 5. Introduction, 6. Wild(e) Ireland, 7. A theatrical matrilineage?: problems of the familial in the drama of Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr, 8. Gender, citizenship and the state in Ireland, 1922–1990, 9. Gender, nation, excess: reading Hush-a-Bye Baby, PART III: Space, 10. Introduction, 11. M/otherlands: literature, gender, diasporic identity, 12. Citizens of its hiding place: gender and urban space in Irish women’s poetry, 13. Mapping carceral space: territorialisation, resistance and control in Northern Ireland’s women’s prisons, 14. Listening to the silences: defining the language and the place of a new Ireland, Index
Biography
Alderson, David; Becket, Fiona; Brewster, Scott; Crossman, Virginia
'Ireland in Proximity is a well-organised and efficiently edited collection of twelve essays, grouped around the categories of 'History, Gender', Space.' - - Lance Pettitt, British Association for Irish Studies Newsletter
'In providing a well-written, stimulating set of readings, Ireland in Proximity places an important section of Irish Studies in the mainstream of critical thinking.' - Contemporary Review
