Fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles since 1969 : (de-)constructing the north / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews.
| Author/creator | Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, 1948- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts, ©2003. |
| Description | 303 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Spine title | (De-)constructing the North |
| Contents | Reading positions: the (Northern) Irish cultural debate -- The troubles as trash : Good terrorists and bad terrorists: Jack Higgins' The savage Day ; Just gaming: Gerald Seymour's Harry's game ; Internationalising the troubles thriller: Tom Clancy's Patriot Games -- Liberal humanism and the realist aesthetic: the terrorised imagination : The view from the south: Terence de vere White's The distance and the dark ; Manichaeism and melodrama: Eugene McCabe's Victims ; Nativist piety, civilised outrage: Benedict Kiely's Proxopera ; The moral thriller: Brian Moore's Lies of Silence ; The terrain of nightmare: Maurice Leitch's Silver's city ; Catholic guilt: Bernard MacLaverty's Cal -- Postmodern humanism : The anthropology of terrorism: Francis Stuart's A hole in the head ; Postmodern iron: Benedict Kiely's Nothing happens in Carmincross ; Remythologising Protestantism: Glenn Patterson's Burning your own, Fat lad and The international ; Antic dispositions: Robert MacLiam Wilson's Ripley Bogle, Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man ; Border-crossings: Dermot Healy's A goat song ; Historiographic metafiction: Briege Duffaud's A wreath upon the dead ; Four trama narratives: Deirdre Madden's Hidden symptoms and One by one in the darkness, David Park's The healing and Stone kingdom ; The carnivalised text: Frances Molloy's No mate for the magpie, Lionel Shriver's Ordinary decent criminals, Colin Bateman's Divorcing Jack and Cycle of violence, Robert MacLiam Wilson's Eureka street -- Political fiction: rewriting the colonial narrative : Polemical gestures: Danny Morrison's West Belfast ; Inside the IRA: Ronan Bennett's The second prison, Danny Morrison's The wrong man ; The Derry metanarrative: Seamus Deane's Reading in the dark -- Women's writing : Feminising liberal humanism: Jennifer Johnston's Shadows on our skin, The railway station man, The illusionist, How many miles to Babylon? and The old jest ; Feminising Marxism: Mary beckett's Give them stones ; The return of the repressed: Edna O'Brien's House of splendid isolation ; Feminising the thriller: Kate O'Riordan's Involved ; Fictionalising the women's peace movement: Mary Costello's Titanic town. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-283) and index. |
| ISBN | 1851827145 |
| ISBN | 1851827137 (pbk.) : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR881 .K46 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |