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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
- Part III Forms of Experience
- Part IV Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
- Chapter 16 Mediation and Translation in Irish Language Literature
- Chapter 17 Irish Studies and Its Discontents
- Chapter 18 Historical Transitions in Ireland on Screen
- Chapter 19 Irish Blockbusters and Literary Stars at the End of the Millennium
- Chapter 20 Contemporary Literature and Public Value
- Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the Future Present
- Index
Chapter 17 - Irish Studies and Its Discontents
from Part IV - Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
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
- Part III Forms of Experience
- Part IV Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
- Chapter 16 Mediation and Translation in Irish Language Literature
- Chapter 17 Irish Studies and Its Discontents
- Chapter 18 Historical Transitions in Ireland on Screen
- Chapter 19 Irish Blockbusters and Literary Stars at the End of the Millennium
- Chapter 20 Contemporary Literature and Public Value
- Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the Future Present
- Index
Summary
The period since 1980, one of intense social change in Ireland, has witnessed manifold scholarly and intellectual breakthroughs, a weighty library of historiography, and a fluorescence of cultural criticism that has greatly enriched our understanding of Ireland and the Irish story. Yet despite its scholarly and intellectual achievements, there are besetting contradictions and conflicts in the field that we call ‘Irish studies’. Irish studies has a national focus, but an inextricably international institutional ecology. This essay charts the story of Irish studies alert to these contradictions. It examines how and where it developed as a scholarly field, how it responded to internal and external pressures, including the Troubles. It considers how Irish studies negotiated academic frames such as postcolonialism, feminism, and cultural theory and, relatedly, the lasting impact of revisionist-nationalist debates. It analyses how consensus and debate formed what Irish studies covered and, as importantly, what it did not. It concludes by considering the impact of the transnational turn on Irish studies in the twenty-first century.
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- Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020 , pp. 327 - 343Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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