Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form

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Abbott, H. Porter, 139 alienation: in Beckett’s works, 138, 142, 145, 148–49, 151, 153, 155–59, 164; and modernism, 27, 32, 34–35, 56; and postcolonial subjectivity, 27, 33–34, 56, 60–61, 153, 156; and tradition, 32, 35, 56, 60–61, 159 Allen, Nicholas, 73, 75, 112, 214n11 The Amaranthers (Jack B. Yeats), 224n9 Anderson, Benedict, 218n25 Angela’s Ashes (McCourt): as American text, 174, 204–5; comedy in, 176–78, 182, 185–87, 200–1, 227n7; death in, 183, 187–88, 194–96; economy of abjection in, 194–97; family dysfunction in, 179, 182–92, 227n7; Irishness of, 23, 174–76, 197–98, 204–6; market formation in, 23, 196–200, 201–3; narration in, 179–81, 182–84, 185–86, 201–3; and naturalism, 23, 173, 176, 180, 181–89, 190–94, 196, 204; origins in A Couple of Blaguards pub drama, 174, 226–27n6; and pastiche, 177–80, 182–83, 188, 191, 193, 198–99; portrayal of Limerick contrasted with post-Celtic-Tiger collapse, 226n2; and postmodernism, 15, 23, 171, 173–77, 179–81, 183, 186–88, 191, 194, 196, 202–6; reception of, 170–71, 173, 176–77, 225n1, 226n3, 227n10, 227n11; relationship to Celtic Tiger era, 15, 17, 22–23, 170–72, 174, 180, 191, 194, 197–98, 204–6, 225– 26n1, 227n13; relationship to Irish literary tradition, 17, 22–23, 173, 176, 178–79, 227n7, 227n11; sentimentalism in, 183–84, 187–88, 191–93 Anglo-Irish Big House, 89, 92–93, 96, 112, 164 anthropological modernism: and Beckett, 127, 132, 135–38, 167; and the Gaeltacht, 2–3, 27, 33, 138; and Joyce, 2, 4, 14, 120, 179, 208–10; and late modernism, 1, 4, 6, 7–8, 13, 33, 137–38, 142, 173, 179; and the Revival, 1–2, 4, 8, 33, 127, 132, 135–36, 138, 167; W.B. Yeats, 2, 4. See also Castle, Gregory; Esty, Jed; Manganaro, Marc antimimeticism, 3–6, 8, 19, 21, 23, 77–78, 98, 124, 131, 133, 138, 140, 143, 173, 177. See also late modernism antiquarianism, 131–38, 153, 224n9 Aran Islands, 2, 33–34, 213n1, 213n2 Ardnacrusha, Shannon hydroelectric scheme at, 31, 215–16n8 Arndt, Marie, 219n4 Ashes (Hannan), 173, 226n3 autobiography: and commodification, 18–19, 44–47, 49, 217n20; and cosmopolitanism, 22, 33; as de-facement (de Man), 48, 218n23; false closure of autobiographical portrait, 49–50, 174, 179, 181, 218n23; and folk culture, 40–42; formation of the postcolonial subject, 18–19, 31–32, 36–37, 42–43, 49–51, 53, 54–55, 58, 148; and modernism, 19, 27, 33, 37, 46–47, 52; and official nationalism of the Irish Free State, 22, 25, 31–32, 36–37, 41, 45–46, 53, 216n9; reifying demands of, 18, 42–50, 58; speaking subject in, 36–37, 48–51; tension between representation and self-abnegation, 38–39, 42–43, 47–51, 58; theory i n de x Index 240 of 36, 216n11; and tradition, 18, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 37, 41–43, 45–51, 55. See also The Islandman (Ó Criomhthain); Ó Criomhthain, Tomás; Ó Súilleabháin, Muiris; Twenty Years A-Growing (Ó Súilleabháin) Balzac, Honoré, 66, 79, 109, 116–17, 219n7 An Béal Bocht (na gCopaleen/ O’Brien/Ó Nualláin), 155, 215n5, 217n22, 220n15 Beckett, Samuel: absence in works of, 21, 36, 110, 126, 137, 140, 161–63, 194, 225n13; and “aftermath,” 123–25; alienation in works of, 138, 142, 145, 148–49, 151, 153, 155–59, 164, 225n13; allegory criticized by, 132, 224n9; and Anglo-Irishness, 129–30, 141, 164, 224n6, 224n7; on the “antiquarians,” 131–38, 153, 224n9; and Bildungsroman, 127– 28; on Catholic Church, 224n8; on censorship, 140–41, 224n8; “Censorship in the Saorstat,” 140, 224n8; cosmopolitanism of, 122– 24, 223n3, 223n5; critique of the Revival, 4, 20, 124, 127–28, 131– 36, 138, 141, 157, 160, 225n11; early formation of, 128–29, 224n7; ethnographic representation in, 141–42, 225n11; “German Letter of 1937,” 131, 137–40, 142, 144, 163, 167; on the Irish Free State, 130, 140, 224n7, 224n8; Irishness of, 122–23, 126–30, 132–33, 223n1, 223n2, 223n3, 223n5, 224n6, 224n7; Joycean modernism, 21, 141–42, 225n12; and late modernism, 3–5, 7, 9, 15–16, 20–21, 72, 121, 123–27, 130–34, 137–38, 142–44, 158–59, 168–69, 177, 194, 211, 214n12; Malone Dies, 142, 147; Molloy, 142, 147, 153–54; on the object’s stability, 15, 127, 131–36, 138, 143–44, 147, 153, 160–61...