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Contentious Terrains: Boglands, Ireland, Postcolonial Gothic
Derek Gladwin
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Description for Contentious Terrains: Boglands, Ireland, Postcolonial Gothic
Hardcover. This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or peat 'bogs') are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture from the 1880s to the present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 716.
This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or bogs) are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture (1880s-present). Drawing on a range of Irish writers, including Bram Stoker, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, Daniel Corkery, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr, Deirdre Kinahan, Erin Hart, and Tim Robinson, Contentious Terrains argues that the destabilizing capacities of the bog provide a space to explore historically fraught colonial tensions and social struggles through the postcolonial Gothic form. This study shows how bogs are more than mere landforms in the Irish landscape, but a kind of narrative that reveal some ... Read more
This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or bogs) are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture (1880s-present). Drawing on a range of Irish writers, including Bram Stoker, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, Daniel Corkery, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr, Deirdre Kinahan, Erin Hart, and Tim Robinson, Contentious Terrains argues that the destabilizing capacities of the bog provide a space to explore historically fraught colonial tensions and social struggles through the postcolonial Gothic form. This study shows how bogs are more than mere landforms in the Irish landscape, but a kind of narrative that reveal some ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782052043
SKU
V9781782052043
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About Derek Gladwin
Dr Derek Gladwin is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work primarily focuses on environmental and social sustainability of landscape, space, and place in modern and contemporary literary and visual cultures in Ireland, the UK, and the North Atlantic. His recent articles on cultural spaces and environments have appeared in Irish Studies Review, Photography and Culture, Gothic Studies, Canadian Journal of Irish ... Read more
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