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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255227103321

Autore

Heidemann Birte

Titolo

Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature : Lost in a Liminal Space? / / by Birte Heidemann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9783319289915

3319289918

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 280 p.)

Collana

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature, , 2731-3190

Disciplina

809.41

Soggetti

European literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Fiction

Literature

European Literature

Contemporary Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Fiction Literature

World Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature: An Introduction -- 1. From Postcolonial to Post-Agreement: Theorising Northern Ireland's Negative Liminality -- 2. Retrospective (Re)Visions: Post-Agreement Fiction -- 3. Between the Lines: Post-Agreement Poetry -- 4. Performing 'Progress': Post-Agreement Drama -- Diagnosing the Post-Agreement Period: A Literary Detour -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book uncovers a new genre of 'post-Agreement literature', consisting of a body of texts - fiction, poetry and drama - by Northern Irish writers who were born during the Troubles but published their work in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. In an attempt to demarcate the literary-aesthetic parameters of the genre, the book



proposes a selective revision of postcolonial theories on 'liminality' through a subset of concepts such as 'negative liminality', 'liminal suspension' and 'liminal permanence.' These conceptual interventions, as the readings demonstrate, help articulate how the Agreement's rhetorical negation of the sectarian past and its aggressive neoliberal campaign towards a 'progressive' future breed new forms of violence that produce liminally suspended subject positions. .