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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) : , digital, PDF/HTML file(s).

ISBN: 1-5261-2514-5 , 0-7190-9493-3

Content: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is a distinctive book that examines the diversity and energy of writing in a period marked by the unparalleled global prominence of Irish culture.This collection provides a wide-ranging survey of fiction, poetry and drama over the last two decades, considering both well-established figures and also emerging writers who have received relatively little critical attention. Contributors explore the central developments within Irish culture and society that have transformed the writing and reading of identity, sexuality, history and gender. The book examines the impact of Mary Robinson's Presidency; growing cultural confidence 'back home'; legislative reform on sexual and moral issues; the uneven effects generated by the resurgence of the Irish economy (the 'Celtic Tiger' myth); Ireland's increasingly prominent role in Europe; and changing reputation.In its breadth and critical currency, this book will be of particular interest to academics and students working in the fields of literature, drama and cultural studies.

Note: Front matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Notes on contributors -- , Part I Contexts -- , 1 Changing history -- , 2 Flying high? -- , Part II Drama -- , 3 Home places -- , 4 Women on the stage in the 1990s -- , 5 The stuff of tragedy? -- , 6 New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage -- , Part III Poetry -- , 7 Scattered and diverse -- , 8 Architectural metaphors -- , 9 'The places I go back to' -- , 10 Neither here nor there -- , Part IV Fiction and autobiography -- , 11 'Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again' -- , 12 Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel -- , 13 'Sacred spaces' -- , 14 Secret gardens -- , 15 'What's it like being Irish?' -- , 16 Remembering to forget -- , Part V After words -- , 17 'What do I say when they wheel out their dead?' -- , Bibliography -- , Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7190-8560-8

Language: English