Beschreibung
This series aims to publish new research (monographs and essays) into relationships and interactions between culture and identity. The notions of both culture and identity are broadly conceived; interdisciplinary and theoretically diverse approaches are encouraged in a series designed to promote a better understanding of the processes of identity formation, both individual and collective.
Autorenportrait
Irene Gilsenan Nordin is Professor of English at the University of Dalarna, Sweden. She is Director of DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies), and editor of
. Her scholarly work is mainly concerned with contemporary Irish poetry.
Carmen Zamorano Llena is Assistant Professor at the University of Dalarna, Sweden, and has previously taught at the University of Lleida, Spain. She has published on contemporary Irish and British poetry and fiction. Her current research focuses on literary representations of postnationalist identity, ageing and the migrant experience.
Inhalt
Contents: Irene Gilsenan Nordin/Carmen Zamorano Llena: Introduction – Michael Böss: Irish neutrality: From nationalism to postnationalism – Billy Gray: ‘Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet’: Hubert Butler’s perspective on community, nationalism and a globalised Ireland – Miriam O’Kane Mara: The search for global Irishness in Nuala O’Faolain – Seán Crosson: Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: Representing Gaelic games in
(1968) and
(1987) – Damien Shortt: ‘Who put the ball in the English net?’: The privatisation of Irish postnationalism in Dermot Bolger’s
– Matt McGuire: The postmodern promise of Robert McLiam Wilson’s fiction – Carmen Zamorano Llena: Glocal identities in a postnationalist Ireland as reflected through contemporary Irish poetry – David Cregan: Divided subjectivities and modern Irish masculinities: ‘The makings of a man’ – Paula Murphy: ‘Scattering us like seed’: Dermot Bolger’s postnationalist Ireland – Grace Tighe Ledwidge: ‘What ish my nation?’: Nationalism and neo-nationalism in the novels of Colm Tóibín – Catherine Rees: The postnationalist crisis: Theatrical representations of Irish anxiety, identity and narrative in the plays of Martin McDonagh and Marie Jones – Irene Gilsenan Nordin: Elegy and celebration: Landscape, place and dwelling in the poetry of Moya Cannon – Ulf Dantanus: The inner life of the nation: Religion, the otherworld and death in contemporary Irish drama. Inhaltsverzeichnis
