In Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Gregory Castle examines the
impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W.
B. Yeats, John M. Synge and James Joyce. Castle argues that
anthropology enabled Irish Revivalists to confront and combat
British imperialism, even as these Irish writers remained
ambivalently dependent on the cultural and political discourses
they sought to undermine. Castle shows how Irish Modernists
employed textual and rhetorical strategies first developed in
anthropology to translate, reassemble and edit oral and
folk-cultural material. In doing so, he claims, they confronted and
undermined inherited notions of identity which Ireland, often a
site of ethnographic curiosity throughout the nineteenth-century,
had been subject to. Drawing on a wide range of post-colonial
theory, this book should be of interest to scholars in Irish
studies, post-colonial studies and Modernism.
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