Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia

✍ Scribed by Eoin Flannery

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is an interrogative critical genealogy of all facets of Irish postcolonial studies, situating it within broader debates on international neo-imperialism, globalization, and development.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction: Ireland: ‘A Supreme Postcolonial Instance’?......Page 10
1 Field Day and Irish Postcolonial Criticism......Page 28
2 Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse......Page 57
3 Postcolonial Metacriticism – The ‘Second Wave’......Page 111
4 Ireland, Gender and Postcolonialism......Page 155
5 Fanon’s One Big Idea: Revising Postcolonial Studies and Irish Studies......Page 191
Conclusion: Postcolonial Studies and Contemporary Politics......Page 242
Notes......Page 250
Bibliography......Page 255
C......Page 272
G......Page 273
K......Page 274
M......Page 275
V......Page 276
Y......Page 277