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Author Cleary, Joe (Joseph N.)

Title Literature, partition and the nation-state : culture and conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine / Joe Cleary.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cultural margins ; 10
Cultural margins ; 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-250) and index.
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One -- Chapter 1 Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies of self-determination in 'the badlands of modernity' -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Chapter 2 Estranged states: national literatures, modernity and tradition, and the elaboration of partitionist identities -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Part Two -- Chapter 3 'Fork-tongued on the border bit': partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the Northern -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Chapter 4 Agonies of the potentates: journeys to the frontier in the novels of Amos Oz -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 5 The meaning of disaster: the novel and the stateless nation in Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies of self-determination in 'the badlands of modernity' -- 2. Estranged states: national literatures, modernity and tradition, and the elaboration of partitionist identities -- 3. 'Fork-tongued on the border bit': partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the Northern Irish -- 4. Agonies of the potentates: journeys to the frontier in the novals of Amos Oz -- 5. The meaning of disaster: the novel and the stateless nation in Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun.
Summary An extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. The book examines nationalism and self-determination; the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals.
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Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Irish authors.
Middle Eastern literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Middle Eastern literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Nationalism -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism.
History.
Literature and state -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and state.
Comparative literature -- Irish and Middle Eastern.
Comparative literature.
Comparative literature -- Middle Eastern and Irish.
Palestine -- History -- Partition, 1947.
Ireland -- History -- Partition, 1921.
Imperialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cleary, Joe (Joseph N.). Literature, partition and the nation-state. Oxford ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521651506 (DLC) 2001037483 (OCoLC)47182419
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