Race in modern Irish literature and culture /

This book sets out to expose through a combination of literary, cultural and historical analysis the fictive nature of Irish monoculturalism and to probe figurations of racial identity, racial difference, and foreignness in Irish culture.

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Main Author: Brannigan, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1922, Ulysses, and the Irish Race Congress
  • Face value: racial typology and Irish modernism
  • 'Aliens in Ireland'? nation-building and the ethics of hospitality
  • 'Ireland, and black!': the cultural politics of racial figuration
  • Conclusion: imagining the 'New Hibernia'.