Mother/Country
Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín
©2012
Monographs
X,
237 Pages
Series:
Reimagining Ireland, Volume 44
Summary
This original and engaging study explores the way in which Colm Tóibín repeatedly identifies and disrupts the boundaries between personal and political or social histories in his fiction. Through this collapsing of boundaries, he examines the cost of broader political exclusions and considers how personal and political narratives shape individual subjects.
Each of Tóibín’s novels is comprehensively addressed here, as are his non-fiction works, reviews, plays, short stories, and some as-yet-unpublished work. The book situates Tóibín not only within his contemporary literary milieu, but also within the contexts of the Irish literary tradition, contemporary Irish politics, Irish nationalism, and theories of psychology, gender, nationalism, and postcolonialism.
Each of Tóibín’s novels is comprehensively addressed here, as are his non-fiction works, reviews, plays, short stories, and some as-yet-unpublished work. The book situates Tóibín not only within his contemporary literary milieu, but also within the contexts of the Irish literary tradition, contemporary Irish politics, Irish nationalism, and theories of psychology, gender, nationalism, and postcolonialism.
Details
- Pages
- X, 237
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783035302653
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034307536
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-0353-0265-3
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2012 (March)
- Keywords
- Like Being in Another Country Politics and the Lost Mother(s) in The Heather Blazing Politics and Sexuality in The Story of the Night Hiding from the Other Side Emigration and the Portability of Culture in Brooklyn
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. X, 237 pp.
