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Offers a pioneering study of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish culture, writing, and criticism.
List of contents
1. Introduction Paige Reynolds; Part I. Legacies: 2. People: race and class on the contemporary Irish stage Michael Pierse; 3. Nation: reconciliation and the politics of friendship in post-troubles literature Stefanie Lehner; 4. Migration: migrant artists changing the rules in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland Charlotte McIvor; 5. Language: 'world literature' and contemporary Irish language writing Máirín Nic Eoin; 6. Land: neoliberal wastelands in contemporary post-apocalyptic Irish cinema Emma Radley; Part II. Contemporary Conditions: 7. The global contemporary: the humanitarian legacy in Irish fiction Matthew Eatough; 8. The queer contemporary: time and temporality in queer writing Ed Madden; 9. The feminist contemporary: the contradictions of critique Claire Bracken; 10. The maternal contemporary: pregnancy, maternity, and non-maternity on the Irish stage Emilie Pine; 11. The aging contemporary: aging families and generational connections in Irish writing Margaret O'Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh; Part III. Forms and Practices: 12. Ireland's real economy: post-crash fictions of the Celtic Tiger Adam Kelly; 13. Northern Irish poetry Eric Falci; 14. Essayism in contemporary Ireland Julie Bates; 15. Killers, lovers, and teens: contemporary genre fiction Susan Cahill; 16. 'One hundred years a nation': new modes of commemoration Margaret Kelleher; 17. Coda: a new Irish studies Paige Reynolds.
About the author
Paige Reynolds, Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, is the author of Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle (2007) and editor of Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture (2016). She has published widely on modernism, drama, and contemporary Irish writing and performance, and is co-editorof Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020 (with Eric Falci, Cambridge, 2020).
Summary
This book offers a pioneering critical account of twenty-first-century Irish literature and culture, underscoring the crucial role that contemporary writing plays in representing and influencing rapidly changing conditions in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It unsettles presumptions about what constitutes an Irish classic.
