Empire's wake postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form /

Quigley, Mark.

Empire's wake postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form / [electronic resource] : Mark Quigley. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. - xiii, 250 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Rerouting Irish modernism: postcolonial aesthetics and the imperative of cosmopolitanism -- Modernity's edge: speaking silence on the blaskets -- Sean O'Faolain and the end of republican realism -- Unnaming the subject: Samuel Beckett and postcolonial absence -- Postmodern blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the celtic tiger, and the ashes of history -- Conclusion. Dispatches from the modernist frontier: European and Asiatic papers.


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English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)


Electronic books.

PR8755 / .Q54 2013

820.9/9415