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This volume reflects on the pressing questions for Irish literary studies now. Contributors challenge prevailing assumptions within the field, seek to displace the canon, and define alternative paths. From queer studies to transnationalism, from #MeToo to the politics of representing disability, this collection opens up the institution of Irish criticism and considers the ethical challenges and opportunities for scholars working in the field today from concerns with identity politics to questions of form. Moreover, the collection reflects on where we have come from and the development of Irish studies both in the Irish University Review and internationally in Asia, Australasia, Europe, and South America.
KEY FEATURES
*Leading critics tackling the pressing questions for literary studies now: identity, form, and scholarly practice
*Survey essays on emergent areas: digital humanities, bilingualism, children's literature, memoir and experimental poetry
*International perspectives
*Platform for early-career scholars 'in conversation'
*Overview of 50 years of Irish studies in the Irish University Review
Emilie Pine is Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film in University College Dublin and Editor of the Irish University Review. Pine is Director of the Irish Memory Studies Network, and PI of the major IRC New Horizons project Industrial Memories (2015-19). She is the author of The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), The Memory Marketplace: Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Theatre (forthcoming Indiana University Press, 2020), and the multi-award-winning Notes to Self: Personal Essays.
List of contents
'Editor's Introduction, Questions, Directions and Displacements: Irish Studies Now', Emilie Pine; 'Fifty years of the Irish University Review', Maurice Harmon, Christopher Murray, Anne Fogarty, Anthony Roche, John Brannigan; 'Some Things are Worth Losing to Become./? Trans Masculinity | Queer Autoethnography | Where Theory and the Body Collide', Matt Kennedy; 'Disability, Identity and Early Twentieth Century Irish Drama', Emma Creedon; 'Ireland's working-class literature: neglected themes, amphibian academics and the challenges ahead', Michael Pierse; 'Defining Freedom: An Intergenerational and Intersectional Debate in Contemporary Feminism', Lisa Fitzpatrick; 'Moving beyond the category of the nation', Anne Mulhall; 'Beyond the 20th century canon, a conversation', Clíona ní Gallchóir and Sarah McKibben; 'Writing in Ireland, a conversation', Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi and Emma Penney; 'Oceans Apart: Amitav Ghosh, John Millington Synge, and Weak Comparison', Cóilín Parsons; 'Reflecting Realities and Twenty-First-Century Irish Children's and Young-Adult Literature', Patricia Kennon; 'Irish Culture(s): Hyphenated, Bilingual or Plurilingual?', Margaret Kelleher; 'Reflections on Memoir as a New Genre', Eilís Ní Dhuibhne; 'Rethinking Form (Yet Again) in Contemporary Irish Poetry', Eric Falci; 'New Technologies of Research and Digital Interpretation for Early Modern Irish Studies', Marie-Louise Coolahan; 'Archives and Genetic Criticism', Lucy Collins; 'Irish Studies Internationally', Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos, Andrew Fitzsimons, Ronan McDonald, Dianne Hall.
About the author
Emilie Pine is Lecturer in Modern Drama at University College Dublin and Director of the Irish Memory Studies Research Network
Summary
This volume reflects on the pressing questions for Irish literary studies now. Contributors challenge assumptions within the field, seek to displace the canon, and define alternative paths. The collection reflects on where we have come from and the development of Irish studies both in the Irish University Review and internationally.
