Rethinking Occupied Ireland: Gender and Incarceration in Contemporary Irish Film

by Jessica Scarlata

Imprisonment is a central trope of Irish nationalism, often deployed to portray the injustice of an Ireland occupied by foreign rule. Irish nationalism celebrates people jailed for resistance to British forces. While such a celebratory history resists colonialist images of Irish brutality, it also generates nationalist amnesia and nostalgia. Rethinking Occupied Ireland takes this history as its point of departure, arguing that the potent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815633327
• ISBN13: 9780815633327
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.6"