Re-mapping exile : realities and metaphors in Irish literature and history / edited by Michael Böss, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Britta Olinder.

"This volume is the product of a group of Irish Studies scholars in the Nordic countries"--Page 8.

Includes bibliographical references.

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The essays in this collection combine historical, cultural, and literary analyses in their treatment of aspects of exile in Irish writing. Some are 'structuralist' in seeing exile as a physical state of being, often associated with absence, into which an individual willingly or unwillingly enters. Others are 'poststructuralist', considering the narration of exile as a celebration of transgressiveness, hybridity, and otherness.

Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. Re-Mapping Exile -- References -- Theorising Exile -- Meanings of exile -- Towards a sociology of exile -- Exilic writing -- Exile and modernity -- Globalisation and late modern exile -- Remembering exile: The Irish diaspora and the healing of the nation -- Notes -- References -- 'The lukewarm conviction of temporary lodgers': The Anglo-Irish and Dimensions of Exile in the Work of Hubert Butler -- References -- Exiles no More: Ethnic Leadership and the Construction of the Myth of Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- Introduction: Acculturation and ethnic leadership -- Young McGee: Romantic revolutionary -- Mature McGee: Canadian with a Celtic soul -- The Myth of McGee -- The project of Mary Anne Sadlier -- Sadlier's reading of McGee's life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- From Reformer to Sufferer: The Returning Exile in Rosa Mulholland's Fiction -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- (Dis)Location and Its (Dis)Contents: Translation as Exile in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake -- Introduction -- Exile in Literature -- A Poetics of Translation -- Silence, exile, cunning: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- The Babbelers with their Thangas: Finnegans Wake -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- John Hewitt at Home and in Exile -- Exile and immigration -- Exile and emigration -- 'This is my home and country ... ' -- Planter -- native and exile -- Exile in Coventry -- The charms of exile, yet longing for home -- Exile, nationality and identity -- Dissent as exile -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Celtic Ray: Representations of Diaspora Identities in Van Morrison's Lyrics -- Origins and Displacements -- Irish Rover -- Glamour and the Dweller on the Threshold -- Irish Heartbeat -- The Beauty of the Days Gone By.

Notes -- References -- 'Between the Dark Shore and the Light': The Exilic Subject in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's The Second Voyage -- Notes -- References -- 'The culchies have fuckin' everythin': Internal Exile in Roddy Doyle's The -- References -- 'Washed up on Somebody Else's Tide': The Exile Motif in Contemporary Poetry by Women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- John Banville's Shroud: Exile in Simulation -- Introduction -- Exiled from a History and Its Record -- Exiled from the Likeness of a Divinity -- The Exiled Subject in Shroud: 'a contingency, misplaced and adrift in time' (68-69) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CONTRIBUTORS.

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