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THE IRISH EXPATRIATE NOVEL IN LATE CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporaryIrishnovel.ThechaptersexaminehowIrishnarrative dealswiththeUnitedStatesinatimeofdecliningglobalhegemony,a risingChinaandAsia,athwartedandturbulentGlobalSouth,anda EuropeanUnionthathasdecisivelyreshapedIrelandinthelasthalf century.Theauthorarguesthatinaconjuncturedefinedbyvolatile economicandculturalglobalizations,theIrishnovelisstrugglingto imaginenewwaystonarratethecountry’srelationshiptotheworld capitalistsystemandtofindanewplaceforIrishwritingintheworld literary system. Looking at a rapidly changing Ireland in a rapidly changinginternationalorder,JoeClearyoffersnewreadingsofnovels by Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Joseph O’Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett. The study establishes the importance of expatriation to the development of modern Irish fiction and opens new critical conversations about how the Irish novelmightbestengagewiththewiderworldinthesecondquarter ofthetwenty-firstcentury. joe cleary is Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Modernism, Empire, World Literature (2021), Outrageous Fortune:CapitalandCultureinModernIreland(2007)andLiterature, PartitionandtheNation-State:CultureandConflictinIreland,Israel andPalestine(2002).HeisalsothevolumeeditorofTheCambridge Companion to Irish Modernism (2014) and has co-edited The CambridgeCompaniontoModernIrishCulture(2005). Published online by Cambridge University Press cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture Editor PeterBoxall,UniversityofSussex As the cultural environment of the twenty-first century comes into clearer focus, CambridgeStudiesinTwenty-First-CenturyLiteratureandCulturepresentsaseries of monographs that undertakes the most penetrating and rigorous analysis of contemporarycultureandthought. Theseriesisdrivenbytheperceptionthatcriticalthinkingtodayisinastateof transition.Theglobalforcesthatproduceculturalformsareenteringintopowerful new alignments, which demand new analytical vocabularies in the wake of later twentieth-century theory. The series will demonstrate that theory is not simply a failedrevolutionarygesturethatweneedtomovebeyond,butratherbringsustothe thresholdofanewepisteme,whichwillrequirenewtheoreticalenergytonavigate. Inthisspirit,theserieswillhostworkthatexploresthemostimportantemerging critical contours of the twenty-first century, marrying inventive and imaginative criticismwiththeoreticalandphilosophicalrigour.Theaimoftheserieswillbeto produceanenduringaccountofthetwenty-first-centuryintellectuallandscapethat willnotonlystandasarecordofthecriticalnatureofourtime,butalsoforgenew critical languages and vocabularies with which to navigate an unfolding age. In offering a historically rich and philosophically nuanced account of contemporary literatureandculture,theserieswillstandasanenduringbodyofworkthathelpsus tounderstandtheculturalmomentinwhichwelive. InThisSeries JoelEvans Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern: Literature, Culture, Theory AdelineJohns-Putra ClimateChangeandtheContemporaryNovel CarolineEdwards UtopiaandtheContemporaryBritishNovel PaulCrosthwaite TheMarketLogicsofContemporaryFiction JenniferCooke ContemporaryFeministLife-Writing Published online by Cambridge University Press GarrettStewart Book,Text,Medium:Cross-SectionalReadingforaDigitalAge AntonyRowland MetamodernismandContemporaryBritishPoetry SherrylVint BiopoliticalFuturesinTwenty-First-CenturySpeculativeFiction JoeCleary TheIrishExpatriateNovelinLateCapitalistGlobalization Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press THE IRISH EXPATRIATE NOVEL IN LATE CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION JOE CLEARY YaleUniversity Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108833578 doi:10.1017/9781108985598 ©JoeCleary2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. 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Published online by Cambridge University Press THE IRISH EXPATRIATE NOVEL IN LATE CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporaryIrishnovel.ThechaptersexaminehowIrishnarrative dealswiththeUnitedStatesinatimeofdecliningglobalhegemony,a risingChinaandAsia,athwartedandturbulentGlobalSouth,anda EuropeanUnionthathasdecisivelyreshapedIrelandinthelasthalf century.Theauthorarguesthatinaconjuncturedefinedbyvolatile economicandculturalglobalizations,theIrishnovelisstrugglingto imaginenewwaystonarratethecountry’srelationshiptotheworld capitalistsystemandtofindanewplaceforIrishwritingintheworld literary system. Looking at a rapidly changing Ireland in a rapidly changinginternationalorder,JoeClearyoffersnewreadingsofnovels by Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Joseph O’Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett. The study establishes the importance of expatriation to the development of modern Irish fiction and opens new critical conversations about how the Irish novelmightbestengagewiththewiderworldinthesecondquarter ofthetwenty-firstcentury. joe cleary is Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Modernism, Empire, World Literature (2021), Outrageous Fortune:CapitalandCultureinModernIreland(2007)andLiterature, PartitionandtheNation-State:CultureandConflictinIreland,Israel andPalestine(2002).HeisalsothevolumeeditorofTheCambridge Companion to Irish Modernism (2014) and has co-edited The CambridgeCompaniontoModernIrishCulture(2005). Published online by Cambridge University Press cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture Editor PeterBoxall,UniversityofSussex As the cultural environment of the twenty-first century comes into clearer focus, CambridgeStudiesinTwenty-First-CenturyLiteratureandCulturepresentsaseries of monographs that undertakes the most penetrating and rigorous analysis of contemporarycultureandthought. Theseriesisdrivenbytheperceptionthatcriticalthinkingtodayisinastateof transition.Theglobalforcesthatproduceculturalformsareenteringintopowerful new alignments, which demand new analytical vocabularies in the wake of later twentieth-century theory. The series will demonstrate that theory is not simply a failedrevolutionarygesturethatweneedtomovebeyond,butratherbringsustothe thresholdofanewepisteme,whichwillrequirenewtheoreticalenergytonavigate. Inthisspirit,theserieswillhostworkthatexploresthemostimportantemerging critical contours of the twenty-first century, marrying inventive and imaginative criticismwiththeoreticalandphilosophicalrigour.Theaimoftheserieswillbeto produceanenduringaccountofthetwenty-first-centuryintellectuallandscapethat willnotonlystandasarecordofthecriticalnatureofourtime,butalsoforgenew critical languages and vocabularies with which to navigate an unfolding age. In offering a historically rich and philosophically nuanced account of contemporary literatureandculture,theserieswillstandasanenduringbodyofworkthathelpsus tounderstandtheculturalmomentinwhichwelive. InThisSeries JoelEvans Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern: Literature, Culture, Theory AdelineJohns-Putra ClimateChangeandtheContemporaryNovel CarolineEdwards UtopiaandtheContemporaryBritishNovel PaulCrosthwaite TheMarketLogicsofContemporaryFiction JenniferCooke ContemporaryFeministLife-Writing Published online by Cambridge University Press GarrettStewart Book,Text,Medium:Cross-SectionalReadingforaDigitalAge AntonyRowland MetamodernismandContemporaryBritishPoetry SherrylVint BiopoliticalFuturesinTwenty-First-CenturySpeculativeFiction JoeCleary TheIrishExpatriateNovelinLateCapitalistGlobalization Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press
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