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Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature: Lost in a Liminal Space?

By Birte Heidemann (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-28990-8, 978-3-319-28991-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-28991-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2683806 bytes)
Series
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 280\286
Time added
2016-07-20 04:00:00
British and Irish Literature; Contemporary Literat

Description

This book uncovers a new genre of ‘post-Agreement literature’, consisting of a body of texts – fiction, poetry and drama – by Northern Irish writers who grew up during the Troubles but published their work in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. In an attempt to demarcate the literary-aesthetic parameters of the genre, the book proposes a selective revision of postcolonial theories on ‘liminality’ through a subset of concepts such as ‘negative liminality’, ‘liminal suspension’ and ‘liminal permanence.’ These conceptual interventions, as the readings demonstrate, help articulate how the Agreement’s rhetorical negation of the sectarian past and its aggressive neoliberal campaign towards a ‘progressive’ future breed new forms of violence that produce liminally suspended subject positions.

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