Race in modern Irish literature and culture /

For decades Ireland presented itself as the land of hospitality, until the 1990s, when the 'Celtic Tiger' exposed its racist underbelly. In Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture, John Brannigan argues that race and racism have longer histories in the Irish state, histories which have...

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Autore principale: Brannigan, John
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=315979
Sommario:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 1922, Ulysses, and the Irish Race Congress
  • Chapter 2 Face Value: Racial Typology and Irish Modernism
  • Chapter 3 8216;Aliens in Ireland8217;: Nation-building and the Ethics of Hospitality
  • Chapter 4 8216;Ireland, and Black!8217;: The Cultural Politics of Racial Figuration
  • Conclusion: Imagining the 8216;New Hibernia8217;
  • Bibliography
  • Index.