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Fanon's one big idea: Ireland and postcolonial studies
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2004)
Postcolonial theory has been, and remains, one of the dominant modes of literary and cultural criticism within the broader discourse of Irish Studies. This thesis will provide a summary theoretical interrogation of the ...
Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Cinematic Form in Michael Haneke’s "Hidden" and Alan Gilsenan’s "Zulu 9"
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)
This essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9. These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration, postcolonial ...
Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2010)
This article is a response to Bill Ashcroft’s ‘Critical Utopias’, which appeared
in this journal in 2007. In his earlier piece, Ashcroft offered a summary genealogy
of the historical and literary historical links between ...
Rites of Passage: Migrancy and the Liminality in Colum McCann’s "Songdogs" and "This Side of Brightness"
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2008)
This article deals with two novels by the Irish writer Colum McCann: Songdogs and
This Side of Brightness. Reading the narratives of both texts through the work of
anthropologist Victor Turner, the essay reveals how ...
"Listen to the Leaves": Derek Mahon's Evolving Ecologies
(Wayne State University Press, 2016)
“New York Time,” previously “The Hudson Letter” (1996), opens in “Winter,” and the poetic speaker is awoken amid snow and ice in New York City to the combined but competing strains of “the first bird and the first garbage ...
Arrival and Departure:"Fishing the Sloe-Black River" (1994)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)
‘Fishing the Sloe-Black River’, the title story of McCann’s first published collection, appeared in print a year before the complete
volume of stories was published by Phoenix House. The quasi-magic realist narrative was ...
Representation and Performance: Dancer (2003)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)
Introducing the work of John Banville, Derek Hand invokes the protracted genealogy of the novel in locating the formal and thematic loci of Banville’s fictions. Hand alludes to Harold Bloom’s recent thoughts on the ...
Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Nadeem Aslam’s "The Wasted Vigil" (2008) and Colum McCann’s "Let the Great World Spin" (2009)
(Oxford Academic, 2013)
In a recent literary critical survey, Catherine Morley notes a suite of trends in 9/11 fiction: ‘While many of the initial reactions to the events of 11th September were notable for their uniquely subjective emphasis, with ...
Passion and Arrogance: Poetic Craft and Topographies of Remembrance in the Work of Michael Hartnett
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2005)
In his seminal study, Oral Tradition as History, Jan Vansina argues that landscape is properly viewed as a layered and richly textured depository of both individual and communal memory. The landscape is implicated in the ...
Introduction Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)
At the beginning of the RTÉ Arts Lives documentary, ‘Colum McCann – Becoming a New Yorker’ (2009), Colum McCann asks, selfconsciously, why anyone would want to follow him around with a camera and make a film about his life ...