The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization

Description

This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in the last half century. The author argues that in a late capitalist world defined by volatile economic and cultural globalizations, the Irish novel is struggling to imagine new ways to narrate the country's relationship to the world capitalist system and to find new place for Irish writing in the world literary system. Looking at a rapidly-changing Ireland in a rapidly-changing international order, Joe Cleary offers new readings of novels by Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett. 01.0_pp_i_i_The_Irish_Expatriate_Novel_in_Late_Capitalist_Globalization 02.0_pp_ii_iv_Cambridge_Studies_in_Twenty-First-Century_Literature_and_Culture 03.0_pp_v_v_The_Irish_Expatriate_Novel_in_Late_Capitalist_Globalization 04.0_pp_vi_vi_Copyright_page 05.0_pp_vii_viii_Dedication 06.0_pp_ix_x_Contents 07.0_pp_xi_xii_Acknowledgements 08.0_pp_1_28_Revaluations_of_Irish_Expatriate_Fiction 09.0_pp_29_83_After_America 10.0_pp_84_130_Between_Byzantium_and_Beijing 11.0_pp_131_169_Monstrous_Modernity_of_the_Global_South 12.0_pp_170_203_Elusive_Europes 13.0_pp_204_217_The_Weight_of_the_World 14.0_pp_218_237_Notes 15.0_pp_238_244_Index