Re-Mapping Exile

Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History

Michael Boss, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Britta Olinder, Michael Boss, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Britta Olinder

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9788779340107
• eBook ISBN: 9788779349223
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

The essays in this collection combine historical, cultural, and literary analyses in their treatment of aspects of exile in Irish writing. Some are 'structuralist' in seeing exile as a physical state of being, often associated with absence, into which an individual willingly or unwillingly enters. Others are 'poststructuralist', considering the narration of exile as a celebration of transgressiveness, hybridity, and otherness. This type of exile moves away from a political, cultural, economic idea of exile to an understanding of exile in a wider existential sense. The volume presents readings of Irish literature, history and culture that reflect some of the historical, sociological, psychological and philosophical dimensions of exile in the 1800s and 1900s. The theme of exile is discussed in a wide range of texts including literature, political writings and song-writing, either in works of Irish writers not normally associated with exile, or in which new aspects of 'exile' can be discerned. The essays cover, among others: Butler, D'Arcy McGee, Mulholland, Joyce, Hewitt, Van Morrison, Ni Chuilleanain, Doyle, and Banville.

Table of contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION. Re-Mapping Exile
• Theorising Exile
• ‘The lukewarm conviction of temporary lodgers’: The Anglo-Irish and Dimensions of Exile in the Work of Hubert Butler
• Exiles no More: Ethnic Leadership and the Construction of the Myth of Thomas D’Arcy McGee
• From Reformer to Sufferer: The Returning Exile in Rosa Mulholland’s Fiction
• (Dis)Location and Its (Dis)Contents: Translation as Exile in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake
• John Hewitt at Home and in Exile
• The Celtic Ray: Representations of Diaspora Identities in Van Morrison’s Lyrics
• ‘Between the Dark Shore and the Light’: The Exilic Subject in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Second Voyage
• ’The culchies have fuckin’ everythin’: Internal Exile in Roddy Doyle’s The
• ‘Washed up on Somebody Else’s Tide’: The Exile Motif in Contemporary Poetry by Women
• John Banville’s Shroud: Exile in Simulation
• CONTRIBUTORS