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Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture

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The first publication to offer a large-scale survey of transnational scholarship in the field of Irish literature and culture.

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Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: a weak theory of transnationalism Cóilín Parsons; Part I. Transnational Genealogies: 1. 'A World of New Wonders': Maria Edgeworth's Atlantic ecology and the limits of transnationalism in the nineteenth century Sonja Lawrenson; 2. 'I'm apparently not famous anymore': appropriating Dion Boucicault's octoroon and reckoning with racial violence in America Chanté Mouton Kinyon; 3. Destitute recollection: Joyce's Indian translocations Udaya Kumar; 4. 'Under the shadow of the Monument': on first looking into Finnegans Wake Peter D. McDonald; 5. Eironesian Island others: Irish Islands within Pacific waters Maebh Long; Part II. Planets: 6. Stargazing in Joyce and Walcott: navigating colonial entanglements with asterisms Maria McGarrity; 7. Ireland, literature, and the blue humanitie Nicholas Allen; 8. You have gas: reading for Irish energy Michael Rubenstein; 9. 'Unbearably Intimate Connections': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the planet Nathan Suhr-Sytsma; Part III. Missed Translations: 10. Sounding authentic: renditions of Central and Eastern European Literature by Irish writers Aidan O'Malley; 11. Irish literature, (Irish-)American culture, and 'Hiberno-American Blandness' Tara Stubbs; 12. Ngundalehla Godotgai-A Bundjalung version of waiting for Godot Peter Kuch; Part IV. Transnational Futures: 13. Irish fiction, small presses, and the world-system Matthew Eatough; 14. Resources and repertoires: language in Irish fiction after globalization Michael Malouf; 15. Roots and crowns: race and hair culture in traveller and black women's writing Mary M. Burke and Sarah L. Townsend; 16. Conflict and care: Edna O'Brien's Girl, Colum McCann's Apeirogon, and the limits of interculturality Fiona McCann; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Cóilín Parsons' first monograph, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (2016) won the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize and was shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize. He has co-edited Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa (2015) and Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism (2019).

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