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Irish Cosmopolitanism - Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett (Paperback)
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Irish Cosmopolitanism - Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett (Paperback)
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Looking at the writing of three significant Irish expatriates, Nels
Pearson challenges conventional critical trends that view their
work as either affirming Irish anti-colonial sentiment or embracing
international identity. In reality, he argues, these writers
constantly work back and forth between a sense of national
belonging that remains incomplete and ideas of human universality
tied to their new global environments. For these and many other
Irish writers, national and international concerns do not conflict,
but overlap-and the interplay between them motivates Irish
modernism. According to Pearson, Joyce's Ulysses strives to
articulate the interdependence of an Irish identity and a universal
perspective; Bowen's exiled, unrooted characters are never firmly
rooted in the first place; and in Beckett, the unsettled origin is
felt most keenly when it is abandoned for exile. These writers
demonstrate the displacement felt by many Irish citizens in an
ever-changing homeland unsteadied by long and turbulent
decolonization. Searching for a sense of place between national and
global abstractions, their work displays a twofold struggle to
pinpoint national identity while adapting to a fluid cosmopolitan
world.
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