Title Literature, partition and the nation-state : culture and conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine / Joe Cleary

Published Oxford ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) Series Cultural margins ; 10 Cultural margins ; 10. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One -- Chapter 1 Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies of self-determination in 'the badlands of modernity' -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Chapter 2 Estranged states: national literatures, modernity and tradition, and the elaboration of partitionist identities -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Part Two -- Chapter 3 'Fork-tongued on the border bit': partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the Northern -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Chapter 4 Agonies of the potentates: journeys to the frontier in the novels of Amos Oz -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 5 The meaning of disaster: the novel and the stateless nation in Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies of self-determination in 'the badlands of modernity' -- 2. Estranged states: national literatures, modernity and tradition, and the elaboration of partitionist identities -- 3. 'Fork-tongued on the border bit': partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the Northern Irish -- 4. Agonies of the potentates: journeys to the frontier in the novals of Amos Oz -- 5. The meaning of disaster: the novel and the stateless nation in Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun Summary An extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. The book examines nationalism and self-determination; the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-250) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism Middle Eastern literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Nationalism -- History -- 20th century Literature and state -- History -- 20th century Comparative literature -- Irish and Middle Eastern Comparative literature -- Middle Eastern and Irish Imperialism in literature. Colonies in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Colonies in literature English literature -- Irish authors Imperialism in literature Literature and state Middle Eastern literature Nationalism Literatur Nation Motiv Teilung Motiv SUBJECT Palestine -- History -- Partition, 1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097178 Ireland -- History -- Partition, 1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003297 Subject Ireland Middle East -- Palestine Irland Israel Arabisch. Hebräisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0511019254 9780511019258 0511155743 9780511155741 9780521651509 0521651506 9780521657327 0521657326 0511117655 9780511117657 9780511483110 0511483112 9780511048043 0511048041 6610162034 9786610162031 1107117119 9781107117112 1280162031 9781280162039 0511303971 9780511303975

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