The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization
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This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in the last half century. The author argues that in a late capitalist world defined by volatile economic and cultural globalizations, the Irish novel is struggling to imagine new ways to narrate the country's relationship to the world capitalist system and to find new place for Irish writing in the world literary system. Looking at a rapidly-changing Ireland in a rapidly-changing international order, Joe Cleary offers new readings of novels by Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett.
- Offers readers a groundbreaking study of the place of the contemporary Irish novel in the wider world capitalist and literary world systems
- Offers an original world-facing overview of a broad selection of late- twentieth- and early-twenty-first century Irish fiction
- Offers significant readings of major novels by leading Irish writers including Colm Tóibín, Joseph O'Neill, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan, Naoise Dolan, Anne Enright, Ronan Bennett, Aidan Higgins, Deidre Madden, and others
Reviews & endorsements
'… an essential account of how and why we have arrived where we are' Matthew Eatough, LA Review of Books
‘a hugely important contribution to Irish Studies … a very significant work because it establishes terms on which scholars of the contemporary Irish novel will need to engage. It also lays the foundations for those engagements by providing a foundational theoretical framework; indeed, for such scholars, this book will be indispensable.’ Eoghan Smith, Irish Studies Review
‘The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization is a very significant work because it establishes terms on which scholars of the contemporary Irish novel will need to engage. It also lays the foundations for those engagements by providing a foundational theoretical framework; indeed, for such scholars, this book will be indispensable.’ Eoghan Smith
Product details
- Published: October 2021
- Format: Adobe eBook Reader
- ISBN: 9781108988902
- Length: 0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: revaluations of Irish expatriate fiction
- 1. After America: the Irish transatlantic novel in the program era
- 2. Between Byzantium and Beijing: Asia from the Celtic to the American twilight
- 3. Monstrous modernity of the global south
- 4. Elusive Europes: new futures, old traumas?
- Conclusion: the weight of the world.
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