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MANCHESTER Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature 2015 Edition by Pilar Villar-argaiz
Now available in paperback, this pioneering collection of essays deals with the topic of how Irish literature responds to the presence of non-Irish immigrants in Celtic-Tiger and post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland. The book assembles an international group of 18 leading and prestigious academics in the field of Irish studies from both sides of the Atlantic, including Declan Kiberd, Anne Fogarty and Maureen T. Reddy, amongst others. Key areas of discussion are: what does it mean to be 'multicultural' and what are the implications of this condition for contemporary Irish writers? How has literature in Ireland responded to inward migration? Have Irish writers reflected in their work (either explicitly or implicitly) the existence of migrant communities in Ireland? If so, are elements of Irish traditional culture and community maintained or transformed? What is the social and political efficacy of these intercultural artistic visions? -- . Table of contents :- 1. Introduction. The immigrant in contemporary Irish literature - Pilar Villar-ArgaizPART I: IRISH MULTICULTURALISMS: OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES2. White Irish male playwrights and the immigrant experience onstage - Charlotte McIvor3. Strangers in a strange land?: The new Irish multicultural literature - Amanda Tucker4. 'A nation of Others': The immigrant in contemporary Irish poetry - Pilar Villar-Argaiz5. Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger novels - Margarita Estevez-SaaPART II: 'RETHINKING IRELAND' AS A POSTNATIONALIST COMMUNITY6. 'Who is Irish?': Roddy Doyle's hyphenated identities - Eva Roa White7. 'Our identity is our own instability': Intercultural exchanges and the redefinition of identity in Hugo Hamilton's Disguise and Hand in Fire - Carmen Zamorano Llena8. 'Many and terrible are the roads to home': Representations of the immigrant in the contemporary Irish short story- Anne Fogarty9. Writing the 'new Irish' into Ireland's old narratives: The poetry of Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Mary O'Malley, and Michael Hayes - Katarzyna PoloczecPART III: 'THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED': 'PERFORMING' IRISHNESS THROUGH INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS10. 'Marooned men in foreign cities': Encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger's The Ballymun Trilogy - Paula Murphy11. 'Like a foreigner / in my native land': Transculturality and Otherness in twenty-first-century Irish poetry - Michaela Schrage-Fruh12. Irish multicultural epiphanies: Modernity and the recuperation of migrant memory in the writing of Hugo Hamilton - Jason King13. The Parts: Whiskey, tea, and sympathy - Katherine O'Donnell14. Hospitality and hauteur: Tourism, cross-cultural space, and ethics in Irish poetry - Charles I. ArmstrongPART IV: GENDER AND THE CITY15. Towards a multiracial Ireland: Black Baby's revision of Irish motherhood - Maureen T. Reddy16. Beginning history again: Gendering the foreigner in Emer Martin's Baby Zero - Wanda Balzano17. 'Goodnight and joy be with you all': Tales of contemporary Dublin city life - Loredana Salis18. Mean streets, new lives: The representations of non-Irish immigrants in recent Irish crime fiction - David ClarkIndex -- .