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Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature: Lost in a Liminal Space?

Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature: Lost in a Liminal Space?

Heidemann, Birte

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Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3319804685
ISBN13: 9783319804682
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 7 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book uncovers a new genre of 'post-Agreement literature', consisting of a body of texts - fiction, poetry and drama - by Northern Irish writers who grew up during the Troubles but published their work in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. In an attempt to demarcate the literary-aesthetic parameters of the genre, the book proposes a selective revision of postcolonial theories on 'liminality' through a subset of concepts such as 'negative liminality', 'liminal suspension' and 'liminal permanence.' These conceptual interventions, as the readings demonstrate, help articulate how the Agreement's rhetorical negation of the sectarian past and its aggressive neoliberal campaign towards a 'progressive' future breed new forms of violence that produce liminally suspended subject positions.

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