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In one of the first books to bring contemporary critical theory to bear on Irish studies, contributors--eminent Irish and American scholars--provide insightful and timely essays on Ireland’s changing identity by looking at representations of Ireland in history, film, literature, and political science. Contributors explore the role of language in identity construction, modern efforts to reconstruct Irish identity after the Great Famine, and the impact of gender and class on nationality. Ultimately, the Ireland that emerges from these theoretical, multidisciplinary snapshots is complex, diverse, and largely unmapped. Long defined by others, it is also an Ireland ready and eager to define itself. CONTENTS Introduction: Representation: Responsibility/Ideology/Power/Difference, by Susan Shaw Sailer Part I. Constructing Irish Identities: Nationality, Gender, Language 1. From Nationalism to Liberation, by Declan Kiberd 2. "The Stone Recalls Its Quarry": An Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 3. Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back, by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Part II. Reconstructing Irish Identities 4. Irish Identity and the Illustrated London News 1846-1851: Famine to Depopulation, by Leslie Williams 5. Studying a New Science: Yeats, Irishness, and the East, by John Rickard 6. The Changing Social Bases of Political Identity in Ireland, by Timothy J. White Part III. Interweavings: Gender, Class, Nationality 7. Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative: The Autobiographies of Anglo-Irish Women, by Elizabeth Grubgeld 8. Irish Working-Class Women and World War I, by Claire A. Culleton 9. First Principles and Last Things: Death and the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Audre Lorde, by Margaret Mills Harper 10. Women, "Queers," Love, and Politics: The Crying Game as a Corrective Adaptation of / Reply to The Hostage, by Maureen S. G. Hawkins
Susan Shaw Sailer is associate professor of English at
West Virginia University and the author of On the Void
of To Be: Incoherence and Trope in Finnegans Wake (1993). 1997. 256 pp. 6 X 9. ISBN 0-8130-1543-X
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"A worthy contribution to Irish Studies. The essays provide important new perspectives on a broad range of specific periods and subjects in Irish Studies." --
English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 "The essays in Representing Ireland provide valuable insights into aspects of Ireland's social, political and cultural past. Taken together, they provide a thought-provoking and timely volume which bears testimony to the value of an interdisciplinary approach." -- Irish Studies Review
"A wide-ranging and important collection of essays on the intersections of social class, gender, national identity, and aesthetics in Irish literature and culture. It is a timely and significant contribution to Irish studies."--Jonathan Allison, University of Kentucky
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