Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture

By: John Brannigan

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Hardcover | 25 June 2009

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John Brannigan radically rereads the cultural history of the Irish state, demonstrating through original historical research and insightful new readings of literary and artistic works that race is central to modern Ireland's definition of itself. Brannigan examines the tropes of racial identity and racist distinction that underpin modern expressions of Irishness and traces a persistent concern with racial ideologies in twentieth-century Irish culture. "Ulysses" is read against the Irish Race Congress in Paris and the making of the Irish Free State in 1922. The works of Liam O'Flaherty, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, and Jack Yeats engage critically with anthropological representations of "the Irish face." Brannigan reads a wide range of mid-century fiction against a public discourse on "foreign bodies" and examines critical conversations on figurations of blackness in Irish culture. A provocative revision of modern Irish cultural history.

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Complex processes have constructed white Irishness, and we are only beginning to understand these. This excellent book is a welcome addition to the slowly growing literature on this subject. -- Prof Patricia Coughlan, University College, Cork Estudiosirlandeses Complex processes have constructed white Irishness, and we are only beginning to understand these. This excellent book is a welcome addition to the slowly growing literature on this subject.

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