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9781403981936

Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing Writing and Resistance

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  • ISBN13:

    9781403981936

  • ISBN10:

    1403981930

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-11-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

The first book devoted entirely to a critical examination of contemporary Irish prison literature, Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing explicates extant and previously unpublished texts by world-famous figures like Gerry Adams and Bobby Sands as well as the works of lesser-known and anonymous authors, paying special attention to women's writing. This book analyzes Republican resistance within Northern Irish prisons as it traces the textual history of these writings, demonstrating the ways in which POWs appropriate prison space through discursive strategies. As it explores the aesthetic alterity of prison writing Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing critiques traditional assumptions about literature, simultaneously shedding light on the continuing conservatism of canonical boundaries.

Author Biography

Lachlan Whalen is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. His writings on Irish Republican prisoners have appeared in New Hibernia Review/ Iris Nua Éireannach and Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Taoibh Amuigh agus Faoi Ghlas: The Counter-aesthetics of Republican Prison Writing
"Our Barbed Wire Ivory Tower": The Cages of Long Kesh
"Comrades in the Dark": Writing in the H Blocks, 1976-1981
"Silence or Cell?": Women Writing in Armagh, Maghaberry, and Durham
"Captive Voices": Post-1981 Republican Prison Writing
Postscript: "You Look Like Jesus Christ": Images of Republican POWs in Contemporary Cinema
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