Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment

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Ireland After History (Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays and Monographs)

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What is the agenda of postcolonial theory? Is there a peculiarly Irish postcolonial theory? If so, how does it relate to decolonizing projects elsewhere in the world, contemporary or historical? What does Irish postcolonial theory learn from other sites and what, in turn, does it contribute to the understanding of colonialism as a world-wide phenomenon? Is an Irish postcolonialism merely a stalking horse for nationalism? Or does it take up the critique of identity and the nation state in the attempt to find an alternative understanding of state formation and decolonization and of the historical processes that bring these movements into conflict? What are the historical myths that have governed modernity -- colonial, nationalist, and capitalist? Do they limit and obscure the heterogeneity of Irish culture and its apparently oblique relation to modernization? Are there other methods and theoretical approaches that might open up the field of Irish Studies to alternative perspectives and narratives?These are some of the questions addressed in the linked essays collected in Ireland After History -- essays that draw on a range of theoretical resources, from walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School to subaltern historiography and Marxist critiques of ideology. This volume addresses a wide variety of Irish cultural phenomena, from politics to cinema, from poetry to murals, but it focuses primarily on the tired dichotomies of nationalism and revisionism in order to establish alternative possibilities, both theoretical and practical, for the understanding of the past and the shaping of the future.This book is an outstanding contribution to Irish Studies. It is innovative, challenging, andshould provoke much-needed debate. Above all else, this is a pioneering contribution to the methodology of Irish Studies, theorizing the discipline and placing it in both an international and an interdisciplinary framework.

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(Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-colonial Moment) Author: David Lloyd published on (July, 1993)

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Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

( Anomalous States is an archeology of modern Irish writi...)

Anomalous States is an archeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd commences with recent questioning of Irish identity in the wake of the northern conflict and returns to the complex terrain of nineteenth-century culture in which those questions of identity were first formed. In five linked essays, he explores modern Irish literature and its political contexts through the work of four Irish writers—Heaney, Beckett, Yeats, and Joyce. Beginning with Heaney and Beckett, Lloyd shows how in these authors the question of identity connects with the dominance of conservative cultural nationalism and argues for the need to understand Irish culture in relation to the wider experience of colonized societies. A central essay reads Yeats's later works as a profound questioning of the founding of the state. Final essays examine the gradual formation of the state and nation as one element in a cultural process that involves conflict between popular cultural forms and emerging political economies of nationalism and the colonial state. Modern Ireland is thus seen as the product of a continuing process in which, Lloyd argues, the passage to national independence that defines Ireland's post-colonial status is no more than a moment in its continuing history. Anomalous States makes an important contribution to the growing body of work that connects cultural theory with post-colonial historiography, literary analysis, and issues in contemporary politics. It will interest a wide readership in literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and history.

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