Empire's Wake : : Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form / / Mark Quigley.
Shedding new light on the rich intellectual and political milieux shaping the divergent legacies of Joyce and Yeats, Empire’s Wake traces how a distinct postcolonial modernism emerged within Irish literature in the late 1920s to contest and extend key aspects of modernist thought and aesthetic innov...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Rerouting Irish Modernism: Postcolonial Aesthetics and the Imperative of Cosmopolitanism
- 1. Modernity’s Edge: Speaking Silence on the Blaskets
- 2. Sean O’Faoláin and the End of Republican Realism
- 3. Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Postcolonial Absence
- 4. Postmodern Blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the Celtic Tiger, and the Ashes of History
- Conclusion. Dispatches from the Modernist Frontier: “European and Asiatic papers please copy”
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index