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Author Whalen, Lachlan, 1969- author.

Title Contemporary Irish Republican prison writing : writing and resistance / Lachlan Whalen
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series New directions in Irish and Irish American literature
New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
Contents Traditional Literary Aesthetics and Writing Faoi Ghlas * Women Writing in Armagh and Maghaberry * The Cages: Gerry Adams and the Re-visioning of Republicanism * The H Blocks and Bobby Sands * Post 1981 Developments: Felimo, Scairt Amach, An Glor Gafa * Images to Contest: Visual and Cinematic Depictions of Republican POWs
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of contemporary Irish prison literature, Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing explicates extant and previously unpublished texts by world-famous figures like Gerry Adams and Bobby Sands as well as the works of lesser-known and anonymous authors, paying special attention to women's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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index
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Subject Political prisoners' writings, Irish.
Republicanism -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Political prisoners -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Literary studies: from c 1900 -.
Literary essays.
Political oppression & persecution.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Political prisoners
Political prisoners' writings, Irish
Republicanism
Northern Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230610064
0230610064
1349538876
9781349538874