Haunted Historiographies: The Rhetoric of Ideology in Postcolonial Irish Fiction - Couverture rigide

Schultz, Matthew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 071909092X ISBN 13 : 9780719090929

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The spectres of history haunt Irish fiction. In this compelling study, Matthew Schultz maps these rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish history.

By exploring this exchange between literary discourse and historical events, Haunted historiographies provides literary historians and cultural critics with a theory of the spectre that exposes the various complex ways in which novelists remember, represent and reinvent historical narrative. It juxtaposes canonical and non-canonical novels that complicate long-held assumptions about four definitive events in modern Irish history - the Great Famine, the Irish Revolution, the Second World War and the Northern Irish Troubles - to demonstrate how historiographical Irish fiction from James Joyce and Samuel Beckett to Roddy Doyle and Sebastian Barry is both a product of Ireland's colonial history and also the rhetorical means by which a post-colonial culture has emerged.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Matthew Schultz is the Writing Center Director at Vassar College

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 071909092X
• ISBN 13: 9780719090929
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible