Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular CultureIreland's Others is a collection of essays by noted literary and cultural critic Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. In this volume, Cullingford assesses attempts by Irish writers to reverse hostile colonial stereotypes by creating analogies between their situations and those of other oppressed people. She analyzes the political costs and benefits of these analogies, and considers the plight of "others" within Ireland, including women, gays, travelers, and abused children. Cullingford illuminates the connection between gender, sexuality, and national identity by comparing modern Irish literature with contemporary Irish and American popular culture. Exploring the work of Boucicault, Shaw, Friel, Jordan, McGuinness, and others, she considers the impact of globalization on Irish culture. |
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... writing of this book . My present and former graduate students in Irish Studies have been an unfail- ing source of inspiration : I have learned as much from them as they have from me . Margot Backus , Ed Madden , Laura Lyons , Joe Kelly ...
... writers , naturally , the triumphalist Troy - Rome - London sequence had primarily negative associations . Carthaginians begins ... writing in 1187 to justify the territorial ambi- tions of Henry II , established the English practice of ...
... Writing Ireland : Colonialism , Nationalism and Culture . Manches- ter : Manchester University Press , 1988 . and Toni O'Brien Johnson , eds . In Gender in Irish Writing . Milton Keynes : Open University Press , 1991 . and Shaun ...
Contents
and the Politics of Empathy | 13 |
Anticolonial Metaphors | 99 |
Analogy and Ambiguity in the Irish Western | 161 |
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