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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785064203321

Autore

Flannery Eóin

Titolo

Ireland and Postcolonial Studies [[electronic resource] ] : Theory, Discourse, Utopia / / by Eóin Flannery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-67360-2

9786612673603

0-230-25065-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

820.9358

Soggetti

Literature   

Culture—Study and teaching

Literature—Philosophy

Great Britain—History

Intellectual life—History

Literature, Modern—20th century

Postcolonial/World Literature

Cultural and Media Studies, general

Literary Theory

History of Britain and Ireland

Intellectual Studies

Twentieth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ireland: 'A Supreme Postcolonial Instance'?; 1 Field Day and Irish Postcolonial Criticism; 2 Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse; 3 Postcolonial Metacriticism - The 'Second Wave'; 4 Ireland, Gender and Postcolonialism; 5 Fanon's One Big Idea: Revising Postcolonial Studies and Irish Studies; Conclusion: Postcolonial Studies and Contemporary Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.