The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization (Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: New, 11/11/2021
EAN 9781108833578, ISBN10: 1108833578
Hardcover, 280 pages, 22.9 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in the last half century. The author argues that in a late capitalist world defined by volatile economic and cultural globalizations, the Irish novel is struggling to imagine new ways to narrate the country's relationship to the world capitalist system and to find new place for Irish writing in the world literary system. Looking at a rapidly-changing Ireland in a rapidly-changing international order, Joe Cleary offers new readings of novels by Colm TóibÃÂn, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett.
Introduction
revaluations of Irish expatriate fiction
1. After America
the Irish transatlantic novel in the program era
2. Between Byzantium and Beijing
Asia from the Celtic to the American twilight
3. Monstrous modernity of the global south
4. Elusive Europes
new futures, old traumas?
Conclusion
the weight of the world.