Ireland and Postcolonial Theory

by Carroll, Clare; King, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780268022877
• ISBN10: 0268022879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

"The essays in this remarkable compilation all focus on the crucial question of whether or not Ireland was a colony, and whether its history is therefore...a colonial and subsequently a postcolonial one. This is no mere antiquarian or academic squabble, since what is at stake is nothing less than the whole question of Irish identity." From the Afterword by Edward Said

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction: The Nation and Postcolonial Theory	1	(15)
Clare Carroll
'Misplaced Ideas'?: Colonialism, Location, and Dislocation in Irish Studies	16	(30)
Joe Cleary
After History: Historicism and Irish Postcolonial Studies	46	(17)
David Lloyd
Barbarous Slaves and Civil Cannibals: Translating Civility in Early Modern Ireland	63	(18)
Clare Carroll
Towards a Postcolonial Enlightenment: The United Irishmen, Cultural Diversity and the Public Sphere	81	(11)
Luke Gibbons
Between Filiation and Affiliation: The Politics of Postcolonial Memory	92	(17)
Kevin Whelan
Dumbness and Eloquence: A Note on English as We Write It in Ireland	109	(13)
Seamus Deane
Mutinies: India, Ireland and Imperialism	122	(7)
Amitav Ghosh
Irish Orientalism: An Overview	129	(29)
Joseph Lennon
Spirituality, Internationalism and Decolonization: James Cousins, the 'Irish Poet from India'	158	(19)
Gauri Viswanathan
Afterword: Reflections on Ireland and Postcolonialism	177	(10)
Edward W. Said
Notes and References	187	(36)
Bibliography	223	(14)
Index	237