This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in the last half century. The author argues that in a late capitalist world defined by volatile economic and cultural globalizations, the Irish novel is struggling to imagine new ways to narrate the country's relationship to the world capitalist system and to find new place for Irish writing in the world literary system.
Looking at a rapidly-changing Ireland in a rapidly-changing international order, Joe Cleary offers new readings of novels by Colm Tóibìn, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett.
| ISBN: | 9781108984867 |
| Publication date: | 26th November 2026 |
| Author: | Joe Cleary |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in the last half century.
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization features in the following genres: Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization was written by Joe Cleary and published by Cambridge University Press
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization has 256 pages
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