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The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 Utterly Resigned Terror
By Aaron Kelly
Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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For the past 30 years, the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North. Aaron Kelly challenges both these judgments, showing that the historical questions raised by setting a thriller in Northern Ireland disrupt the... Read more
Contents: Introduction: 'You didn't need a reason to kill people, not here': narrative, the north, and historical agency; 'The green unpleasant land': the political unconscious of the British 'Troubles' thriller; 'And what do you call it?': the thriller and the problematics of home in Northern Irish writing; 'New languages would have to be invented': representations of Belfast and urban space; 'A man could get lost': constructions of gender; 'It's not for the likes of us to philosophize': the pleasure and politics of thrills, or, towards a political aesthetics; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Aaron Kelly is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature in English at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
’Kelly's monograph is to be welcomed [...] for subjecting the formal and ideological dimensions of this variegated literary corpus to systematic, theorized investigation. This absorbing [...] study of the 'Troubles' thriller genre significantly expands the critical frameworks within which contemporary Northern Irish fiction can be read.’ Modern Language Review
