Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing)

Magennis, Caroline

ISBN 10: 135025472X / ISBN 13: 9781350254725

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 135025472X
• ISBN 13: 9781350254725
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 358 grams

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Synopsis

Winner of the British Association for Comtemporary Literary Stuides (BACLS) monograph prize The period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland has undergone a literary renaissance, with a fresh generation of writers exploring innovative literary forms. This open access book explores contemporary Northern Irish fiction and how the ‘post’-conflict period has led writers to a renewed engagement with intimacy and intimate life. Magennis draws on affect and feminist theory to examine depictions of intimacy, pleasure and the body in their writings and shows how intimate life in Northern Ireland is being reshaped and re-written. Featuring short reflective pieces from some of today’s most compelling Northern Irish Writers, including Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, Bernie McGill and David Park, this book provides authoritative insights into how a contemporary engagement with intimacy provides us with new ways to understand Northern Irish identity, selfhood and community. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

About the Authors

Caroline Magennis is Reader in 20th and 21st Century Literature at the University of Salford, UK. She is the author of Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel (2010).

Bryan Cheyette is Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Reading. He is the editor or author of ten books, most recently Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History (2014) and (with Peter Boxall) volume seven of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (on the British and Irish novel, 1940-present) (2016). He reviews contemporary fiction and criticism for the Times Literary Supplement and various newspapers.

Martin Paul Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (2014); Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (2014); Password (2016); and Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict.