Literature, partition and the nation-state : culture and conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine / Joe Cleary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleary, Joe (Joseph N.), author.

Series:

Cultural margins ; 10.

Cultural margins ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Middle Eastern literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Middle Eastern literature.

Nationalism--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Literature and state--History--20th century.

Literature and state.

Comparative literature--Irish and Middle Eastern.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Middle Eastern and Irish.

Imperialism in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Palestine--History--Partition, 1947.

Palestine.

Ireland--History--Partition, 1921.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Literature, Partition & the Nation-State

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of partition in the twentieth century is one steeped in controversy and violence. Literature, Partition and the Nation State offers an extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine, two regions where the trauma of partition continues to shape political events to this day. Focusing on the period since the 1960s, when the original partition settlements in each region were challenged by Irish and Palestinian nationalists, Joe Cleary's book contains individual chapters on nationalism and self-determination; on the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and on influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals. Cleary's book is a radical and enthralling intervention into contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines on nations and nationalism. It will be of interest to scholars in Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Irish Literature, Middle East Studies and Modern History.

Contents:

Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies of self-determination in 'the badlands of modernity'

Estranged states: national literatures, modernity and tradition, and the elaboration of partitionist identities

'Fork-tongued on the border bit': partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the Northern Irish conflict

Agonies of the potentates: journeys to the frontier in the novels of Amos Oz

The meaning of disaster: the novel and the stateless nation in Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-250) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11711-9

1-280-16203-1

0-511-11765-5

0-511-15574-3

0-511-30397-1

0-511-48311-2

0-511-04804-1

OCLC:

475917666