Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive

by Culleton, Claire A.; McGarrity, Maria

• ISBN13: 9780230612235
• ISBN10: 0230612237
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Through essays written by established and younger scholars, Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive examines the ways a variety of modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism and examines the intersection of Irish Modernism and the global rhetoric of the primitive encounter. The twelve essays in this collection focus critical attention on the broader study of global primitive alterities, especially from Africa, from the East, and on extreme representations of "indigenous others" from the New World. Contributors demonstrate how primitivism functions variously as an idealized nostalgia for the past, as a threat of the foreign, or as a potential representation of difference and connection. This collection addresses the ways Ireland's past primitive heritage regularly, though ironically, moves into the Irish present. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Maria McGarrity is Associate Professor of English, Long Island University.

Claire A. Culleton is Professor of Modern British and Irish Literature, Kent State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Ambivalent Primitives: Responding to the Celtic Revival
Queering the Revivalist's Pitch: Joycean Engagements with Primitivism	p. 17
Robots and Rebels: Technological and Organic Discourse in Pearse's Political Essays	p. 41
"Magnificent Words and Gestures": Defining the Primitive in Synge's The Aran Islands	p. 63
Primitivism, Ethnography, and Cultural Translation
The Ethnographic Roots of Joyce's Modernism: Exhibiting Ireland's Primitives in the National Museum and the "Nestor" Episode	p. 79
Visible Others: Photography and Romantic Ethnography in Ireland	p. 93
"The Loveliness Which Has Not Yet Come Into the World": Translation as a Revisitation of Joyce's (Irish) Modernism	p. 115
Primitive Emancipation: Religion, Sexuality, and Freedom in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses	p. 133
Gender, Primitivism, and the Body
"Reluctant Indians": Irish Identity and Racial Masquerade	p. 153
Female Militancy and Irish Primitivism: Dorothy Macardle's Earth-Bound	p. 173
Domestic Gothic, the Global Primitive, and Gender Relations in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The House in Paris	p. 195
The Gaelic Athletic Association, Joyce, and the Primitive Body	p. 215
Index	p. 235
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