Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics (New World Studies)
Michael G. Malouf
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Description for Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics (New World Studies)
Paperback. Novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories. This title recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New York and London. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Despite their prominent place in twentieth-century literature in English, novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories in which they are either representing a local, nationalist tradition or functioning within an international movement such as modernism or postcolonialism. Redressing this either/or framework, Michael Malouf recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New York and London. In examining these cross-cultural exchanges, he reconsiders our conception of transatlantic space and ... Read more
Despite their prominent place in twentieth-century literature in English, novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories in which they are either representing a local, nationalist tradition or functioning within an international movement such as modernism or postcolonialism. Redressing this either/or framework, Michael Malouf recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New York and London. In examining these cross-cultural exchanges, he reconsiders our conception of transatlantic space and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927800
SKU
V9780813927800
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About Michael G. Malouf
Michael G. Malouf is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University. His articles have appeared in The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture, edited by Diane Negra, and in the journals the James Joyce Quarterly and Interventions.
Reviews for Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics (New World Studies)
A path-breaking comparative study. Malouf is an excellent reader of poetry and a fine literary critic. Transatlantic Solidarities is the sort of book that stimulates further research as well as mapping and exploring its own terrain, and I believe that it will be much discussed in future years in both Irish and African American/Caribbean studies circles. - David Lloyd, University ... Read more