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This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into
the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing
original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and
personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism,
Flannery's readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry, travel
writing, non-fiction, and essay writing are ground-breaking in
their depth and scope. Explorations of figures and texts from Irish
cultural and political history, including John McGahern, Derek
Mahon, Roger Casement, and Tim Robinson, among many others, enable
and invigorate the discipline of Irish cultural studies, and
international ecocriticism on the whole. This book addresses the
need to impress the urgency of lateral ecological awareness and
responsibility among Irish cultural and political commentators; to
highlight continuities and disparities between Irish ecological
thought, writing, and praxis, and those of differential
international writers, critics, and activists; and to establish
both the singularity and contiguity of Irish ecological criticism
to the wider international field of ecological criticism. With the
introduction of concepts such as ecocosmopolitanism, "deep"
history, ethics of proximity, Gaia Theory, urban ecology, and
postcolonial environmentalism to Irish cultural studies, it takes
Irish cultural studies in bracing new directions. Flannery
furnishes working examples of the necessary interdisciplinarity of
ecological criticism, and impresses the relevance of the Irish
context to the broader debates within international ecological
criticism. Crucially, the volume imports ecological critical
paradigms into the field of Irish studies, and demonstrates the
value of such conceptual dialogue for the future of Irish cultural
and political criticism. This pioneering intervention exhibits the
complexity of different Irish cultural and historical responses to
ecological exploitation, degradation, and social justice.
This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into
the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing
original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and
personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism,
Flannery's readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry, travel
writing, non-fiction, and essay writing are ground-breaking in
their depth and scope. Explorations of figures and texts from Irish
cultural and political history, including John McGahern, Derek
Mahon, Roger Casement, and Tim Robinson, among many others, enable
and invigorate the discipline of Irish cultural studies, and
international ecocriticism on the whole. This book addresses the
need to impress the urgency of lateral ecological awareness and
responsibility among Irish cultural and political commentators; to
highlight continuities and disparities between Irish ecological
thought, writing, and praxis, and those of differential
international writers, critics, and activists; and to establish
both the singularity and contiguity of Irish ecological criticism
to the wider international field of ecological criticism. With the
introduction of concepts such as ecocosmopolitanism, "deep"
history, ethics of proximity, Gaia Theory, urban ecology, and
postcolonial environmentalism to Irish cultural studies, it takes
Irish cultural studies in bracing new directions. Flannery
furnishes working examples of the necessary interdisciplinarity of
ecological criticism, and impresses the relevance of the Irish
context to the broader debates within international ecological
criticism. Crucially, the volume imports ecological critical
paradigms into the field of Irish studies, and demonstrates the
value of such conceptual dialogue for the future of Irish cultural
and political criticism. This pioneering intervention exhibits the
complexity of different Irish cultural and historical responses to
ecological exploitation, degradation, and social justice.
From an analysis of the Guinness brand's reflection of Irish
identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of
political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to
present Ireland's relationship to visual culture as a whole. While
other works have explored the imagistic history of Ireland, most
have restricted their lens to a single form of visual
representation. ""Ireland in Focus"" is the first book to address
the diverse range of visual representations of national and
communal identity in Ireland. The contributors examine the politics
of visual representation from both historical and contemporary
perspectives. Drawing from the areas of cultural theory,
postcolonial studies, art criticism, documentary and archival
history, and gender studies, the essays provide novel insights on a
variety of visual-cultural forms, including film, theater,
photography, landscape art, political murals, and the visual
iconography of commercial marketing. Bringing together established
scholars and emerging young critics in the field, ""Ireland in
Focus"" breaks new ground in showcasing the essential dynamism of
visual culture and its relationship to Irish studies.
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.
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.
Based on readings of some of the leading literary voices in
contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors
have engaged with the events of Ireland’s recent economic
‘boom’ and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they
have portrayed the widespread and contrasting aftermaths. Drawing
upon economic literary criticism, affect theory in relation to
shame and guilt, and the philosophy of debt, this book offers an
entirely original suit of perspectives on both established and
emerging authors. Through analyses of the work of writers including
Donal Ryan, Anne Haverty, Claire Kilroy, Dermot Bolger, Deirdre
Madden, Chris Binchy, Peter Cunningham, Justin Quinn, and Paul
Murray, author Eóin Flannery illuminates their formal and thematic
concerns. Paying attention to generic and thematic differences,
Flannery’s analyses touch upon issues such as: the politics of
indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of
affect theory to understandings of Irish culture and society in an
age of austerity; and the relationship between literary fiction and
the mechanics of high finance. Insightful and original, Form,
Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction provides a
seminal intervention in trying to grasp the cultural context and
the literature of the Celtic Tiger period and its wake.
This new book is the second volume in a two-volume "mini-series"
devoted to representing diverse and innovative ecocritical voices
from throughout the world, particularly from developing nations
(the first volume, Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development,
appeared in 2014). The vast majority of existing ecocritical
studies, even those which espouse the "postcolonial ecocritical"
perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on
behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes
without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted communities.
We have sought in Ecocriticism of the Global South to allow
scholars from (or intimately familiar with) underrepresented
regions to "write back" to the world's centers of political and
military and economic power, expressing views of the intersections
of nature and culture from the perspective of developing countries.
This approach highlights what activist and writer Vandana Shiva has
described as the relationship between "ecology and the politics of
survival," showing both commonalities and local idiosyncrasies by
juxtaposing such countries as China and Northern Ireland, New
Zealand and Cameroon. The two volumes of the Ecocriticism of the
Global South Series point to the need for further cultivation of
the environmental humanities in regions of the world that are,
essentially, the front line of the human struggle to invent
sustainable and just civilizations on an imperiled planet.
The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which
espouse the "postcolonial ecocritical" perspective, operate within
a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized
human communities and degraded landscapes without actually
eliciting the voices of the impacted communities. Ecocriticism of
the Global South seeks to allow scholars from (or intimately
familiar with) underrepresented regions to "write back" to the
world's centers of political and military and economic power,
expressing views of the intersections of nature and culture from
the perspective of developing countries. This approach highlights
what activist and writer Vandana Shiva has described as the
relationship between "ecology and the politics of survival,"
showing both commonalities and local idiosyncrasies by juxtaposing
such countries as China and Northern Ireland, New Zealand and
Cameroon. Much like Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development, this
new book is devoted to representing diverse and innovative
ecocritical voices from throughout the world, particularly from
developing nations. The two volumes complement each other by
pointing out the need for further cultivation of the environmental
humanities in regions of the world that are, essentially, the front
line of the human struggle to invent sustainable and just
civilizations on an imperiled planet.
Based on readings of some of the leading literary voices in
contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors
have engaged with the events of Ireland's recent economic 'boom'
and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have
portrayed the widespread and contrasting aftermaths. Drawing upon
economic literary criticism, affect theory in relation to shame and
guilt, and the philosophy of debt, this book offers an entirely
original suit of perspectives on both established and emerging
authors. Through analyses of the work of writers including Donal
Ryan, Anne Haverty, Claire Kilroy, Dermot Bolger, Deirdre Madden,
Chris Binchy, Peter Cunningham, Justin Quinn, and Paul Murray,
author Eoin Flannery illuminates their formal and thematic
concerns. Paying attention to generic and thematic differences,
Flannery's analyses touch upon issues such as: the politics of
indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of
affect theory to understandings of Irish culture and society in an
age of austerity; and the relationship between literary fiction and
the mechanics of high finance. Insightful and original, Form,
Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction provides a
seminal intervention in trying to grasp the cultural context and
the literature of the Celtic Tiger period and its wake.
Enemies of empire addresses a conspicuous gap in the current
literature on colonial and postcolonial literary, theoretical and
historical studies and introduces new perspectives on the
qualitative nature of empire. Themes examined include Irish
literature, African history, Cold War politics, circuits of
knowledge, religious history, Indian hunger strikes, early
20th-century humanitarianism, globalization and subaltern studies.
Contributors: Linda Connolly (UCC), Michael Griffin (U. Limerick),
Eugene OBrien (Mary I.), Louise Fuller (NUIM), Joseph Lennon
(Manhattan College, New York),
Versions of Ireland brings a refined postcolonial theoretical optic
to bear on many of the most urgent questions within contemporary
Irish cultural studies. Drawing on, and extending, the most
advanced critical work within the discipline, the book offers a
subtle critical genealogy of the development of Ireland's diverse
postcolonial projects. Furthermore, it reflects on the relevance
and the effectiveness of postcolonial and subaltern
historiographical methodologies in an Irish context, interrogating
the ethical and political problematics of such discursive
importation. Flannery's work highlights the operative dynamics of
imperial modernity, together with its representational agents, in
Ireland, and also divines moments of explicit and implicit
resistance to modernity's rationalising and accumulative urges.The
book is pioneering in the facility and ease with which it navigates
the interdisciplinary terrain of Irish studies. Flannery provides
enabling and challenging new readings of the poetry of the
bi-lingual poet, Michael Hartnett; the politically imaginative
vistas of the republican mural tradition in the North of Ireland;
the gothic anxieties inherent in the fiction of Eugene McCabe and
the semi-fictional writing of Seamus Deane, and the differential
codes of visual surveillance apparent in Irish tourist posters and
late nineteenth century photography in Ireland. Versions of Ireland
does not dwell on the exclusively theoretical, but offers rich
critical analyses of a range of Irish cultural artefacts in terms
of Ireland's protracted colonial history and contested postcolonial
condition.
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