Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine

This study offers an extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. Focusing on the period since the 1960s, when the original partition settlements in each region were challenged by Irish and Palestinian nationalists, Joe Cleary's book contains individual chapters on nationalism and self-determination; on the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and on influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals.

Author: Joe Cleary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/07/2002
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780521657327

About the Author
Cleary, Joe: - Joe Cleary is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth where he teaches Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Literary Theory, and Renaissance Drama. He has published widely on Irish literature and film and on contemporary political and cultural theory in books and journals such as The South Atlantic Quarterly and Textual Practice.