Ireland and Postcolonial Studies Theory, Discourse, Utopia
A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial criticism, delivering a commentary on this diverse body o
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Also by Eóin Flannery ENEMIES OF EMPIRE: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography (co-edited with Angus Mitchell) IRELAND IN FOCUS: Film, Photography and Popular Culture (co-edited with Michael Griffin) THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann (co-edited with Susan Cahill) VERSIONS OF IRELAND: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture
Ireland and Postcolonial Studies Theory, Discourse, Utopia
Eóin Flannery
© Eóin Flannery 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-22406-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin's Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-30892-7 ISBN 978-0-230-25065-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230250659 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09
To my parents, Mary and John
Reading and writing words encompasses the reading of the world, that is, the critical understanding of politics in the world. Paulo Freire, Literacy: reading the word and the world A century looked at a landscape furious with vegetation in the wrong light and with the wrong eye. It is such pictures that are saddening rather than the tropics itself. These delicate engravings of sugar mills and harbours, of native women in costume, are seen as a part of History, that History which looked over the shoulder of the engraver and, later, the photographer. History can alter the eye and the moving hand to conform a view of itself; it can rename pl
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