Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form
Author | : Mark Quigley |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0823245446 |
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Traces development of Irish literary modernism from the 1920s to the 1990s through the writings of James Joyce, John Millington Synge, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Faolain, Frank McCourt, and the Blasket Island autobiographers, Tomas O'Crohan and Maurice O'Sullivan. Considers Irish literature in relation to Irish nationalism and aftermath of British empire.