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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778544603321

Autore

Brannigan John

Titolo

Race in modern Irish literature and culture / / John Brannigan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-7486-5180-2

1-282-70311-0

9786612703119

0-7486-4095-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.994150904

Soggetti

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Race in literature

Multiculturalism in literature

Multiculturalism - Ireland

Racism - Ireland

Ireland In literature

Ireland Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1922, Ulysses, and the Irish Race Congress -- Face value: racial typology and Irish modernism -- 'Aliens in Ireland': nation-building and the ethics of hospitality -- 'Ireland, and black!': the cultural politics of racial figuration -- Conclusion: imagining the 'New Hibernia'.

Sommario/riassunto

This book sets out to expose through a combination of literary  cultural and historical analysis the fictive nature of Irish monoculturalism and to probe figurations of racial identity  racial difference  and foreignness in Irish culture.