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Contentious terrains : boglands, Ireland, postcolonial Gothic / Derek Gladwin.
Author
Gladwin, Derek
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
xii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PB1314.B64 G53 2016
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Bogs
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Ireland
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In literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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History and criticism
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Irish literature
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Summary note
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.
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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.
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ISBN
9781782052043
1782052046
OCLC
949869808
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