Enemies of Empire New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography

by Flannery, Eoin; Mitchell, Angus

• ISBN13: 9781846820021
• ISBN10: 1846820022
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-16
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

Enemies of empire addresses a conspicuous gap in the current literature on colonial and postcolonial literary, theoretical and historical studies and introduces new perspectives on the qualitative nature of empire. Themes examined include Irish literature, African history, Cold War politics, circuits of knowledge, religious history, Indian hunger strikes, early 20th-century humanitarianism, globalization and subaltern studies. Contributors: Linda Connolly (UCC), Michael Griffin (U. Limerick), Eugene O'Brien (Mary I.), Louise Fuller (NUIM), Joseph Lennon (Manhattan College, New York),����Michael Kilburn (Endicott College, Beverly, MA), Talinn Grigor (MIT), Dan O'Connell (Hobart & William Smith Colleges), Stephen Donovan (Columbia U.), Tiro Sebina (U. Botswana), E���³in Flannery (U. Limerick), Angus Mitchell (U. Limerick).

Table of Contents

Introduction : empire, literature, history	p. 11
Fasting for the public : Irish and Indian sources of Marion Wallace Dunlop's 1909 hunger strike	p. 19
Roger Casement : the evolution of an enemy of empire - I	p. 40
'We are of necessity anti-imperialists' : Irish republicans and empire, 1922-39	p. 58
Erskine Childrers : the evolution of an enemy of empire - II	p. 72
Fraudesia : the British South Africa Company and its enemies	p. 101
Transient constructs : Soviet monuments and those of their enemies	p. 113
Offshore Irelands; or, Hy-Brazil hybridized : utopian colonies and anti-colonial utopias, 1641-1760	p. 130
The use of Hiberno-English as a mouthpiece for Irish identity in the Irish Theatre : Synge's The playboy of the western world and the drama of Martin McDonagh	p. 142
The language of empire and the empire of language : Joyce and the return of the postcolonial repressed	p. 160
Collateral language : empire, theory and idioms of authority	p. 173
The limits of 'Irish studies' : historicism, culturalism, paternalism	p. 189
Is the 'post' in 'post-totalitarian' the 'post' in postcolonial'?	p. 211
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