Language, identity and liberation in contemporaryIrish literature

Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to itspolitical realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Preface - A 'Habitable Grief'?: The Legacy of Cultural and Political Strife in Ireland's Contentious Language Systems - A Republic of One: Individuality, Autonomy and the Question of Irish Collectivity in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy's A Goat's Song - Writing Republicanism: A Betrayal of Entrenched Tribalism in Belfast's Own Vernacular - The Misfit Chorus Line: Ireland from the Margins in Patrick McCabe's Call Me the Breeze - Casting Cathleen: Femininity and Motherhood on the Contemporary Irish Stage - Works Cited - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23750-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 30/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés