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

Contents

c on t e n t s Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Rerouting Irish Modernism: Postcolonial Aesthetics and the Imperative of Cosmopolitanism 1 1. Modernity’s Edge: Speaking Silence on the Blaskets 25 2. Sean O’Faoláin and the End of Republican Realism 65 3. Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Postcolonial Absence 122 4. Postmodern Blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the Celtic Tiger, and the Ashes of History 170 Conclusion. Dispatches from the Modernist Frontier: “European and Asiatic papers please copy” 207 Notes 213 Works Cited 229 Index 239 ...