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Sub-Versions
Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature
Edited by Ciaran Ross
Foreword by Declan Kiberd
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. XII, 299 pp. (DQR Studies in Literature 44)
ISBN: 978-90-420-2828-9 Bound
ISBN: 978-90-420-2829-6 E-Book
Online info: <http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=DQR+44>
From Swift's repulsive shit-flinging Yahoos to Beckett's dying but
never quite dead moribunds, Irish literature has long been perceived
as being synonymous with subversion and all forms of subversiveness.
But what constitutes a subversive text or a subversive writer in
twenty-first-century Ireland? The essays in this volume set out to
redefine and rethink the subversive potential of contemporary Irish
literature. Crossing three central genres, one common denominator
running through these essays whether dealing with canonical writers
like Yeats, Beckett and Flann O'Brien, or lesser known contemporary
writers like Sebastian Barry or Robert McLiam Wilson, is the continual
questioning of Irish identity - Irishness - going from its colonial
paradigm and stereotype of the subaltern in MacGill, to its uneasy
implications for gender representation in the contemporary novel and
the contemporary drama. A subsidiary theme inextricably linked to the
identity problematic is that of exile and its radical heritage for all
Irish writing irrespective of its different genres.
Sub-Versions offers a cross-cultural and trans-national response to
the expanding interest in Irish and postcolonial studies by bringing
together specialists from different national cultures and scholarly
contexts - Ireland, Britain, France and Central Europe. The order of
the essays is by genre.
This study is aimed both at the general literary reader and anyone
particularly interested in Irish Studies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Declan Kiberd: Foreword
Ciaran Ross: Introduction
Part One: The Irish Novel: Subversive Fictions of Irishness (History,
Self and Language)
Terry Phillips: The Wisdom of Experience: Patrick MacGill's Irishness
Reassessed
Christelle Seree-Chaussinand: Irish Man, No Man, Everyman: Subversive
Redemption in Sebastian Barry's The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
Flore Coulouma: Transgressive and Subversive: Flann O'Brien's Tales of
the In-Between
Marie Mianowski: Down-and-outs, Subways and Suburbs: Sub-Versions in
Robert McLiam Wilson's Ripley Bogle and Colum McCann's This Side of
Brightness
Sylvie Mikowski: Gender Trouble in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Part Two: "To Punish the Form": Poetry's Margins of Subversion
Carle Bonafous-Murat: Refutation, Reversal, or Subversion? Forms of
Negativity in the Work of W.B. Yeats
Stipe Grgas: Contemporary Irish Poetry at a Tangent
Anne Goarzin: Paul Durcan's Unsettled Poetry
Florence Schneider: Acutely Discomforting: Subversive Representation
in Paul Muldoon's Poetry
Part Three: Modern Irish Drama: Subversive Scenes of Otherness
Ciaran Ross: "On the Black Road Home": Re-radicalizing Beckett's Irish
Protestant Legacy (A Re-reading of All That Fall)
Eamonn Jordan: The Native Quarter: The Hyphenated-Real - The Drama of
Martin McDonagh
Andrea P. Balogh: Postcolonial Sub-versions of Europe: Brian Friel's
Fathers and Sons
Mária Kurdi: Contesting and Reversing Gender Stereotypes in Three
Plays by Contemporary Irish Women Writers
Index
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