Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form

Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780823245444
ISBN-13 : 0823245446
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Book Synopsis Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form by : Mark Quigley

Download or read book Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form written by Mark Quigley and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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