Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature

By Jennifer Keating-Miller

Book Overview

Acknowledgements Preface A 'Habitable Grief'?: The Legacy of Cultural and Political Strife in Ireland's Contentious Language Systems A Republic of One: Individuality, Autonomy and the Question of Irish Collectivity in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy's A Goat's Song Writing Republicanism: A Betrayal of Entrenched Tribalism in Belfast's Own Vernacular The Misfit Chorus Line: Ireland from the Margins in Patrick McCabe's Call Me the Breeze Casting Cathleen: Femininity and Motherhood on the Contemporary Irish Stage Works Cited Bibliography Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349314897
• ISBN13: 9781349314898
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"