基本説明
Attends to a movement of contemoraray Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech.
Full Description
Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech.
Contents
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
