Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature PDF
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Language,Discourse,Society SeriesEditors:StephenHeath,ColinMacCabeandDeniseRiley Selectedpublishedtitles: MatthewTaunton FICTIONSOFTHECITY Class,CultureandMassHousinginLondonandParis LauraMulvey VISUALANDOTHERPLEASURES Secondedition PeterdeBollaandStefanH.Uhlig(editors) AESTHETICSANDTHEWORKOFART Adorno,Kafka,Richter MishaKavka REALITYTELEVISION,AFFECTANDINTIMACY RealityMatters RobWhite FREUD’SMEMORY Psychoanalysis,MourningandtheForeignBody TeresadeLauretis FREUD’SDRIVE Psychoanalysis,LiteratureandFilm MarkNash SCREENTHEORYCULTURE RichardRobinson NARRATIVESOFTHEEUROPEANBORDER AHistoryofNowhere LyndseyStonebridge THEWRITINGOFANXIETY ImagingWartimeinMid-CenturyBritishCulture AshleyTauchert ROMANCINGJANEAUSTEN Narrative,RealismandthePossibilityofaHappyEnding ReenaDube SATYAJITRAY’STHECHESSPLAYERSANDPOSTCOLONIALTHEORY Culture,LabourandtheValueofAlterity JohnAnthonyTercier THECONTEMPORARYDEATHBED TheUltimateRush EricaSheenandLornaHutson LITERATURE,POLITICSANDLAWINRENAISSANCEENGLAND Jean-JacquesLecercleandDeniseRiley THEFORCEOFLANGUAGE GeoffGilbert BEFOREMODERNISMWAS ModernHistoryandtheConstituencyofWriting StephenHeath,ColinMacCabeandDeniseRiley(editors) THELANGUAGE,DISCOURSE,SOCIETYREADER JenniferKeating-Miller LANGUAGE,IDENTITYANDLIBERATIONINCONTEMPORARYIRISHLITERATURE MichaelO’Pray FILM,FORMANDPHANTASY AdrianStokesandFilmAesthetics JamesA.Snead,editedbyKaraKeeling,ColinMacCabeandCornelWest RACISTTRACESANDOTHERWRITINGS EuropeanPedigrees/AfricanContagions PatriziaLombardo CITIES,WORDSANDIMAGES ColinMacCabe JAMESJOYCEANDTHEREVOLUTIONOFTHEWORD Secondedition MoustaphaSafouan SPEECHORDEATH? LanguageasSocialOrder:aPsychoanalyticStudy Jean-JacquesLecercle DELEUZEANDLANGUAGE PiersGray,editedbyColinMacCabeandVictoriaRothschild STALINONLINGUISTICSANDOTHERESSAYS GeoffreyWard STATUTESOFLIBERTY TheNewYorkSchoolofPoets MoustaphaSafouan JACQUESLACANANDTHEQUESTIONOFPSYCHOANALYTICTRAINING(Translatedand introducedbyJacquelineRose) StanleyShostak THEDEATHOFLIFE TheLegacyofMolecularBiology ElizabethCowie REPRESENTINGTHEWOMAN CinemaandPsychoanalysis RaymondTallis NOTSAUSSURE ACritiqueofPost-SaussureanLiteraryTheory IanHunter CULTUREANDGOVERNMENT TheEmergenceofLiteraryEducation Language,Discourse,Society SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–333–71482–9(hardback) 978–0–333–80332–5(paperback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastandingorder. Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddressbelowwith yournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature Jennifer Keating-Miller CarnegieMellonUniversity ©JenniferKeating-Miller2009 Softcoverreprintofthehardcover1stedition2009 978–0–230–23750–6 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2009by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-31489-8 ISBN 978-0-230-27508-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230275089 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 For Nana If the notion of “Ireland” seemed to some to have become prob- lematic,thatwasonlybecausetheseamlessgarmentoncewrapped likeagreenflagaroundCathleenníHoulihanhadgivenwaytoa quiltofmanypatchesandcolours,allbeautiful,alldistinct,yetall connected too. No one element should subordinate or assimilate the others: Irish or English, rural or urban, Gaelic or Anglo, each hasitspartinthepattern. (DeclanKiberd,InventingIreland) Contents Acknowledgements viii Preface x 1 A“HabitableGrief”?:TheLegacyofCulturalandPolitical StrifeinIreland’sContentiousLanguageSystems 1 2 ARepublicofOne:Individuality,Autonomyandthe QuestionofIrishCollectivityinSeamusDeane’sReadingin theDarkandDermotHealy’sAGoat’sSong 24 3 WritingRepublicanism:ABetrayalofEntrenchedTribalism inBelfast’sOwnVernacular 58 4 TheMisfitChorusLine:IrelandfromtheMarginsinPatrick McCabe’sCallMetheBreeze 100 5 CastingCathleen:FemininityandMotherhoodonthe ContemporaryIrishStage 136 Notes 176 WorksCited 179 Bibliography 182 Index 189 vii Acknowledgements FirstandforemostIwouldliketothankJamesF.Knapp,ColinMacCabe and Stephen Carr at the University of Pittsburgh, and Paul Hopper at CarnegieMellonUniversity,whoeachcontributedtothegrowthofthis project,oversawitsdevelopmentandsupportedmeinmyeffortstosee it come to print. I am also in debt to individuals throughout Ireland whoagreedtobeinterviewedinmyresearchprocess,includingSeamus Deane,DermotHealy,PatrickMcCabe,GerryAdams,DannyMorrison, LawrenceMcKeownandPamBrighton.Ibenefitedaswellfromlibrary facilitiesatUniversityCollegeCork,Queen’sUniversityBelfast,theUni- versityofPittsburghandtheUniversityofRochester.Specialthanksgo to my godfather, Brian Allen, who assisted in scheduling interviews in IrelandwhileIwasintheUnitedStates,toAnne-MarieMurray,formerly ofDubbeljointTheatreCo.,forassistingmeinnavigatingBelfast,andto DavidBleichandBethOlivares,fornumerousdiscussionsasmyresearch progressedoverthelastseveralyears.ImustalsothanktheIrishNation- ality Room Committee at the University of Pittsburgh for a generous research grant in the summer of 2004 that enabled me to launch this entire escapade, and to the University of Pittsburgh for a Pre-Doctoral AndrewMellonFellowshipin2007–2008tosupportmycompletionof thiswork. IwouldliketothankChristabelScaife,ChristineRanftandallofthe editorial and support staff associated with Palgrave Macmillan. Addi- tionally, I would also like to extend thanks to the following publishers for permission to cite from their authors’ work: Declan Kiberd’s Invent- ing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, published by Jonathan Cape,reprintedbypermissionofTheRandomHouseGroupLtd.Patrick McCabe’sCallMetheBreeze,reprintedbypermissionfromHarperCollins Publishers. Gerry Adams’ The Street (1992) reprinted with permission fromBrandon/MountEaglePublications.DermotHealy’sAGoat’sSong, copyright1994byDermotHealy.UsedbypermissionofVikingPenguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Eavan Boland “A Habitable Grief”&“MotherIreland”:“AHabitableGrief”,“MotherIreland”,from The Lost Land by Eavan Boland. Copyright 1998 by Eavan Boland. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “A Habitable Grief,” “Mother Ireland” from The Lost Land by Eavan Boland. Copy- right1998byEavanBoland.UsedbypermissionofCarcanetPressLtd. viii Acknowledgements ix in UK/Commonwealth excluding USA/Canada. Seamus Deane’s Read- ing in the Dark, copyright 1996 by Seamus Deane. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Christina Reid, Plays 1, used by permission from Methuen Drama, an imprint of A&C Black Publishers who are also thanked for permission to quote from Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane”. I would like to thank Danny Morrison et al. for permission to cite from “Binlids.” ThanksalsogotoPearseElliottforpermissiontocitefrom“AMother’s Heart.” IwouldespeciallyliketothankmyhusbandBillyandmysonLiam, who patiently support my work and reward me with their smiles and laughter.Iwouldalsoliketothankmyparents,JohnandMaureen,for their unyielding emotional, financial and intellectual support for each andeveryoneofmyendeavors.Thanksarealsoextendedtoallmyfam- ilyandfriendsintheUS,Irelandandelsewhere,whohaveencouraged methroughouttheyears.Withoutyouall,Iamlost.
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