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Author: Gerry Smyth
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.352kg
ISBN: 9780745312279
ISBN 10: 0745312276
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 20 June 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Begins with a judicious, well-informed survey of what various post-colonial theories have to say about nationalism and decolonisation, before examining how Irish literary criticism has coped with the businss of national autonomy ... [and contains] illuminating chapters on the politics of Irish anthologies and periodicals, along with a useful, well-researchd account of some key critical encounters in Irish history.' THES'This is, without doubt, a valuable and ground-breaking book which not only begins the task of mapping the uncharted territory of modern Irish criticism, but also highlights the extent to which criticism in Ireland is caught up in wider systems of powerA-it should not be ignored by any serious student of Irish culture.' Irish Literary Supplement'Gerry Smyth has exposed...the nature of the Irish cultural network in all its intricacy. His pioneering study enables the advance of Irish Studies into the complexof censorship, criticism and the curricula which informs both what we read and how we read it. It is a significant contribution to the discipline's truly interdisciplinaryfuture.' Shaun Richards, Co -author of 'Writing Ireland' MUP, Stafford University.'The investigation of literary magazines, books of critical enquiry, anthologiesand university syllabi is most useful, particularly for the way in which the author is enabled to demonstrate how 'post-revolutionary identity is still perceived and constructed by critical discourse in terms of the structure of oppositions specificto earlier anti-colonialist modes of resistance.' He is wholly persuasive in his argument that the third postcolonial phase, when the binaries of colonialism and resistance might have been transcended, is largely absent from the criticism of the period. Smyth makes a complex case very well, covering a vast amount of ground in a pioneering analysis of Irish criticism, and in the process, he has convincingly proven that it is a lot easier to decolonise the territory than the mind.'Declan Kiberd, Author of Inventing Ireland, Professor of English - UniversityCollege Dublin'Smyth's is an impressive, wide-ranging study...' British Association for Irish Studies'A ground-breaking and valuable work of scholarship. Smyth sets out to analyse the role playede by literary criticis in the process of Irish decolonization sine the late eighteenth century, with special emphasis on the 1950s ... A work of vital importance.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Author Information
Gerry Smyth is a lecturer in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University, teaching colonialism, post-colonialism and contemporary Irish fiction. He has published on Joyce, Arnold, Irish traditional music, and contemporary Irish cultural criticism.
