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- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Irish Literature in Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Times
- Part II Spaces
- Chapter 6 Habitations: Space, Place, Real Estate
- Chapter 7 Crossings: Northern Irish Literature from Good Friday to Brexit
- Chapter 8 Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre
- Chapter 9 Relocations: Diaspora, Travel, Migrancy
- Chapter 10 Arrivals: Inward Migration and Irish Literature
- Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel
- Part III Forms of Experience
- Part IV Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
- Index
Chapter 10 - Arrivals: Inward Migration and Irish Literature
from Part II - Spaces
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Irish Literature in Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Times
- Part II Spaces
- Chapter 6 Habitations: Space, Place, Real Estate
- Chapter 7 Crossings: Northern Irish Literature from Good Friday to Brexit
- Chapter 8 Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre
- Chapter 9 Relocations: Diaspora, Travel, Migrancy
- Chapter 10 Arrivals: Inward Migration and Irish Literature
- Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel
- Part III Forms of Experience
- Part IV Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
- Index
Summary
An increase in the numbers of people migrating to Ireland in the 1990s spurred a parallel interest in literary representations of a new multicultural Ireland. Until very recently, such representations have been predominantly authored by white Irish writers. In this chapter, I instead focus on fiction and poetry produced in the last decade by migrant writers of colour in Ireland. The perspective afforded in this work is not simply an add-on to the already existing body of literary work about ‘multicultural Ireland’. Rather, it is, among other things, a corrective to the centring of the dominant white ‘native’ point of view on the ‘migrant other’. In the last decade, and particularly in the last few years, migrant writers of colour are breaking through into the literary and cultural mainstream with work that centres migrant of colour consciousness and, particularly in the case of young emerging artists, that experiments with form, genre, and medium in ways that circumvent established literary norms and circuits of exchange.
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- Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020 , pp. 182 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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