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by Colin Graham| 2001| 208 pages| 122| English

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Deconstructing Ireland intervenes with authority and originality in an area rife with debate and passionate opinion, where cultural theory and analysis run alongside the daily challenge of political events. Colin Graham examines the course by which the history of modernity and colonialism has constructed an idea of ‘Ireland’, produced more often as a citation than an actuality.The author’s approach – using Derridean deconstruction in alliance with positions in postcolonial and Subaltern Studies – illuminates the way in which this concept of the nation plays across discourses of authenticity, fiction and fantasy in a fascinating range of material. Successive chapters examine the utopian musings of Ignatius Donnelly, John Mitchel and Sean Hillen; the continuing reinvention of Irish criticism; the relation of the figure of the intellectual-artist and the ‘people’ in James Joyce; the tension between postcolonialism and nationalism in the Field Day project and the political thought of John Hume and Richard Kearney; the relation of gender and nation in stories by Gerry Adams and Frank Delaney; the complex appeal to authenticity in political philosophy, tourism and advertising; and the resonant cultural meanings of ‘Irish’ ephemera and kitsch. Deconstructing Ireland presents a compelling, astutely theorised cultural history. It will be of interest to readers both inside and outside Irish Studies, who are keen to unravel the implications of postcoloniality and to understand the role of literature, political writing, popular culture and criticism itself in maintaining, deconstructing, and reconfiguring the idea of national identity.Key *Includes illustrations of various images of Ireland*Offers a unique and compelling cultural history of Ireland*Considers relationship of cultural forms such as television, film, tourism, advertising to the formation of Irish identity*Sets these cultural forms against the complacencies of an essenti

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Author:Colin Graham
Publication Year:2001
ISBN:9780748609765
Pages:208
Language:English
File Size:122
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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