Brian Friel's (Post) Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics

by F.C. McGrath

Brian Friel is Ireland's most important living playwright, and this book places him in the new canon of postcolonial writers. Drawing on the theory and techniques of the major postcolonial critics, F. C. McGrath offers fresh interpretations of Friel's texts and of his place in the tradition of linguistic idealism in Irish literature.

This idealism has dominated Ireland's still incomplete emergence from its colonial past. It appeals to Irish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815628137
• ISBN13: 9780815628132
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"