Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature

Author:   Pilar Villar-Argaiz ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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Pages:   298
Publication Date:   01 April 2015
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Author:   Pilar Villar-Argaiz ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9780719097324


ISBN 10:   0719097320
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   01 April 2015
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1. Introduction. The immigrant in contemporary Irish literature – Pilar Villar-Argáiz PART I: IRISH MULTICULTURALISMS: OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES 2. White Irish male playwrights and the immigrant experience onstage – Charlotte McIvor 3. Strangers in a strange land?: The new Irish multicultural literature – Amanda Tucker 4. ‘A nation of Others’: The immigrant in contemporary Irish poetry – Pilar Villar-Argáiz 5. Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger novels – Margarita Estévez-Saá PART II: ‘RETHINKING IRELAND’ AS A POSTNATIONALIST COMMUNITY 6. ‘Who is Irish?’: Roddy Doyle’s hyphenated identities – Eva Roa White 7. ‘Our identity is our own instability’: Intercultural exchanges and the redefinition of identity in Hugo Hamilton’s Disguise and Hand in Fire – Carmen Zamorano Llena 8. ‘Many and terrible are the roads to home’: Representations of the immigrant in the contemporary Irish short story– Anne Fogarty 9. Writing the ‘new Irish’ into Ireland’s old narratives: The poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Mary O’Malley, and Michael Hayes – Katarzyna Poloczec PART III: ‘THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED’: ‘PERFORMING’ IRISHNESS THROUGH INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 10. ‘Marooned men in foreign cities’: Encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger’s The Ballymun Trilogy – Paula Murphy 11. ‘Like a foreigner / in my native land’: Transculturality and Otherness in twenty-first-century Irish poetry – Michaela Schrage-Früh 12. Irish multicultural epiphanies: Modernity and the recuperation of migrant memory in the writing of Hugo Hamilton – Jason King 13. The Parts: Whiskey, tea, and sympathy – Katherine O’Donnell 14. Hospitality and hauteur: Tourism, cross-cultural space, and ethics in Irish poetry – Charles I. Armstrong PART IV: GENDER AND THE CITY 15. Towards a multiracial Ireland: Black Baby’s revision of Irish motherhood – Maureen T. Reddy 16. Beginning history again: Gendering the foreigner in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero – Wanda Balzano 17. ‘Goodnight and joy be with you all’: Tales of contemporary Dublin city life – Loredana Salis 18. Mean streets, new lives: The representations of non-Irish immigrants in recent Irish crime fiction – David Clark Index -- .

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Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland. The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature represents, thus, an illuminating, comprehensive and challenging first full-length publication on migration to Ireland and its representation in Irish literature. (Asier Altuna-Garcia de Salazar, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Estudios Irlandeses, Number 9, 2014) -- .


Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland. The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature represents, thus, an illuminating, comprehensive and challenging first full-length publication on migration to Ireland and its representation in Irish literature. (Asier Altuna-Garcia de Salazar, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Estudios Irlandeses, Number 9, 2014) -- Asier Altuna-Garcia de Salazar. Estudios Irlandeses, Number 9, 2014,


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Pilar Villar-Argáiz is a Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Literature at the University of Granada, Spain -- .

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