Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture

The first publication to offer a large-scale survey of transnational scholarship in the field of Irish literature and culture.

Cóilín Parsons (Edited by)

9781316511213, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 November 2024

368 pages
23.6 x 16.1 x 2.8 cm, 0.67 kg

'… a welcome addition to a field emerging from the legacy of postcolonial studies and adapting to a rapidly changing world.… Highly recommended.' M. Knight, CHOICE

Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish literature and culture. Nation and territory have long been central to cultural production in Ireland, especially as both remain significantly contested, but a continued focus on these inherited scales has hindered critical attention to transnational routes and roots that exist alongside and challenge the nation. This volume sets agenda for the future of study of transnationalism in Irish literature and culture, recognizing the need for a new set of theories and methodologies that are adequate to our emerging world.

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: a weak theory of transnationalism Cóilín Parsons
Part I. Transnational Genealogies: 1. 'A World of New Wonders': Maria Edgeworth's Atlantic ecology and the limits of transnationalism in the nineteenth century Sonja Lawrenson
2. 'I'm apparently not famous anymore': appropriating Dion Boucicault's octoroon and reckoning with racial violence in America Chanté Mouton Kinyon
3. Destitute recollection: Joyce's Indian translocations Udaya Kumar
4. 'Under the shadow of the Monument': on first looking into Finnegans Wake Peter D. McDonald
5. Eironesian Island others: Irish Islands within Pacific waters Maebh Long
Part II. Planets: 6. Stargazing in Joyce and Walcott: navigating colonial entanglements with asterisms Maria McGarrity
7. Ireland, literature, and the blue humanitie Nicholas Allen
8. You have gas: reading for Irish energy Michael Rubenstein
9. 'Unbearably Intimate Connections': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the planet Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Part III. Missed Translations: 10. Sounding authentic: renditions of Central and Eastern European Literature by Irish writers Aidan O'Malley
11. Irish literature, (Irish-)American culture, and 'Hiberno-American Blandness' Tara Stubbs
12. Ngundalehla Godotgai–A Bundjalung version of waiting for Godot Peter Kuch
Part IV. Transnational Futures: 13. Irish fiction, small presses, and the world-system Matthew Eatough
14. Resources and repertoires: language in Irish fiction after globalization Michael Malouf
15. Roots and crowns: race and hair culture in traveller and black women's writing Mary M. Burke and Sarah L. Townsend
16. Conflict and care: Edna O'Brien's Girl, Colum McCann's Apeirogon, and the limits of interculturality Fiona McCann
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]