Fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles since 1969 : (de-)constructing the north / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Irish authors.

Northern Ireland--In literature.

Northern Ireland.

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

(De-)constructing the North

De-constructing the North

Deconstructing the North

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts, [2003]

Contents:

1 Reading Positions: The (Northern) Irish cultural debate 7

2 The Troubles as Trash 41

Good terrorists and bad terrorists: Jack Higgins' The Savage Day 48

Just gaming: Gerald Seymour's Harry's Game 52

Internationalising the Troubles thriller: Tom Clancy's Patriot Games 57

3 Liberal Humanism and the Realist Aesthetic: The Terrorised Imagination 63

The view from the South: Terence de Vere White's The Distance and the Dark 63

Manichaeism and melodrama: Eugene McCabe's Victims 67

Nativist piety, civilised outrage: Benedict Kiely's Proxopera 73

The moral thriller: Brian Moore's Lies of Silence 76

The terrain of nightmare: Maurice Leitch's Silver's City 82

Catholic guilt: Bernard MacLaverty's Cal 87

4 Postmodern Humanism 92

The anthropology of terrorism: Francis Stuart's A Hole in the Head 93

Postmodern irony: Benedict Kiely's Nothing Happens in Carmincross 97

Remythologising Protestantism: Glenn Patterson's Burning Your Own, Fat Lad and The International 102

Antic dispositions: Robert MacLiam Wilson's Ripley Bogle, Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man 113

Border-crossings: Dermot Healy's A Goat's Song 131

Historiographic metafiction: Briege Duffaud's A Wreath upon the Dead 139

Four trauma narratives: Deirdre Madden's Hidden Symptoms and One by One in the Darkness, David Park's The Healing and Stone Kingdoms 145

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 172

5 Political Fiction: Re-Writing the Colonial Narrative 196

Polemical gestures: Danny Morrison's West Belfast 198

Inside the IRA: Ronan Bennett's The Second Prison, Danny Morrison's The Wrong Man 204

The Derry metanarrative: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark 215

6 Women's Writing 224

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 227

Feminising Marxism: Mary Beckett's Give Them Stones 243

The return of the repressed: Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation 248

Feminising the thriller: Kate O'Riordan's Involved 255

Fictionalising the Women's Peace Movement: Mary Costello's Titanic Town 262.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.

ISBN:

1851827145

1851827137

OCLC:

50494994