Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

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Introduction to Part Three We must try to save the republican heritage by transcending the limits of the nation-state. Post-colo ...

reproducers. Against the rooting of women alongside the national, Kristeva addresses the issues of ëmigrancyí and the ëtrans-nat ...

and such a dis-positioning provides a critical practice for evaluation of the intellectual agenda of Berkeleyís poetry. National ...

tyranny but they erect their own little tyrannies.í^7 Kiberd notices how the history of independent Ireland bears a remarkable s ...

nationalisms. Even so, it is important to recognize how connections with continental Europe have helped the Irish national cause ...

Questioning the limits of the political and just how democratic is the nation-state, Habermasís essay, ëThree Normative Models o ...

differences. From this perspective, if diversity can only be secured and affirmed within a broader unity, then multiculturalism ...

It is not the postmodern formulations of Bhabha that are imperialist and eurocentric, but modern assertions of a homogenous nati ...

conclude that we are increasingly living in a postmodern condition, characterized by an increase in: spatial dislocation, the sp ...

This is close to Homi Bhabhaís notion of the ëdifferentialí and Butlerís concept of ëdisidentificationí, whereby modern and esse ...

republican politics upon which it is supposed to be based. In Ireland, nationalism has been imagined as synonymous with republic ...

Whereas John Humeís politics suggest concrete moves beyond ethnic nationalism to a political strategy that attempts to suture se ...

Kiberd as a product of late capitalism, and parodied in terms of Eurocrats visiting Ireland as they would a Celtic theme park. K ...

conceptual value of the nation goes unrecognized.í Post-nationalism is therefore an ëexample of how the concept of the nation co ...

6 Sara Berkeley’s Nomadic Subjects I lose my sense of self, of home, and how the land lies^1 Sara Berkeley has left Ireland for ...

Although Edward Saidís exile is different from Sara Berkeleyís self imposed emigration, his comments in ëThe Mind in Winter: Ref ...

At the Borders of Aesthetics and Politics The role of aesthetics is often mistakenly divorced from the political and there is a ...

For Paulin in this essay, the political poem is motivated by aesthetic ideals and not initiated by allegiances to any particular ...

of the lecturer conceals a clandestine entente with the listener, who could only be rescued from deception by refusing it.^13 If ...