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Summary:

"The Literature of Northern Ireland: Spectral Borderlands theorizes how Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. It argues that the rearrangement of the island and creation of multiple states produced two major effects in the North: it incited concomitant fractures within self and society and interrupted experiences of place. In this 'interregnum, ' the whole arc of Irish time crystallized, the subject as keenly aware of ancient events as those of today and all while awaiting a more just political future. These conditions are represented in the literature through a self-contradictory poetics that fuses ancient and contemporary literary styles. Age-old Irish tropes are deployed within recognizably postmodern styles in works that rely, particularly, on specter and scrim: haunting, deathly characters and metaphors and perilous, pivotal borders. This spectral borderlands aesthetic captures the peculiar temporality of daily life and takes inspiration, chiefly, from Samuel Beckett. This position is outlined in Chapter One and fully elaborated through sustained analyses of literary writing by Belfast women writers: poet Medbh McGuckian, dramatist and fiction writer Anne Devlin, and novelist Anna Burns. Chapters on each explicate their distinctive deployments of the spectral borderlands: Devlin's self-contradiction, McGuckian's silence, and Burns' doubt"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• One. "Au contraire": The Spectral Borderlands of Northern Irish Literature
• Two. Self-Contradiction in a Small Place: Anne Devlin's "Other at the Edge of Life"
• Three. Outlining Silence in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
• Four. Specter and Doubt in Anna Burns' No Bones.

Author/Creator:

Fadem, Maureen E. Ruprecht , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The literature of Northern Ireland: spectral borderlands [by Fadem, M.E.R.]

Related Series:

New directions in Irish and Irish American literature

Subjects:

English literature — Irish authors — History and criticism

Politics and literature — Northern Ireland — History — 20th century

Literature and society — Northern Ireland — History — 20th century

Northern Ireland — In literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PR8891.N67 F33 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781137466235 (electronic bk.)
1137466235 (electronic bk.)
9781137474742 [Invalid]
1137474742 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

900631292

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1953093 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12340997