Contentious terrains : boglands, Ireland, postcolonial Gothic / Derek Gladwin.

Author
Gladwin, Derek [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
xii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or peat bogs) are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture from the 1880s to the present. Bogs are more than ubiquitous landforms in Ireland. They function as a kind of narrative that reveals some of the potentially unanswered questions in an Irish literary geo-history, particularly leading up to and during the Land Wars of the 1880s, Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), the "Troubles" (1960s and 1970s), Celtic Tiger (1990s and 2000s), and into the current environmental crisis. Drawing on a range of Irish writers, including Bram Stoker, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, Daniel Corkery, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr, Deirdre Kinahan, Patrick McCabe, and Tim Robinson, Contentious Terrains, ultimately argues that the destabilizing and haunting capacities of the bog provide a space to explore historically fraught colonial tensions and social struggles through the Gothic form. It employs a cross-disciplinary scope, examining an assortment of Irish writers in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, thus testifying to the pervasiveness and range of the bog's allure in Irish culture.--Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-285) and index.
    Contents
    • The Protean nature of Bogs
    • Environments of Nationalism
    • Mapping Gothic Bog bodies
    • Gendered Boglands
    • Bog Gothic, Bog Noir, and Eco-bog writing
    • Conclusion: Uncertain futures.
    ISBN
    • 9781782052043
    • 1782052046
    OCLC
    949869808
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