Literature, partition and the nation-state : culture and conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine / Joe Cleary.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-250) and index.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One -- Chapter 1 Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies of self-determination in 'the badlands of modernity' -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Chapter 2 Estranged states: national literatures, modernity and tradition, and the elaboration of partitionist identities -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Part Two -- Chapter 3 'Fork-tongued on the border bit': partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the Northern -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Chapter 4 Agonies of the potentates: journeys to the frontier in the novels of Amos Oz -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 5 The meaning of disaster: the novel and the stateless nation in Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies of self-determination in 'the badlands of modernity' -- 2. Estranged states: national literatures, modernity and tradition, and the elaboration of partitionist identities -- 3. 'Fork-tongued on the border bit': partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the Northern Irish -- 4. Agonies of the potentates: journeys to the frontier in the novals of Amos Oz -- 5. The meaning of disaster: the novel and the stateless nation in Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun.

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An extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. The book examines nationalism and self-determination; the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals.

English.

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