The postmodern promise of Robert McLiam Wilson's fiction

Matt McGuire

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    Abstract

    The epilogue to Richard Kearney's Postnationalist Ireland (1997) features a quotation from Seamus Heaney: 'Whatever is given / can always be reimagined, however four-square, / ... it happens to be' (1995:200). It is the role of fiction in this process of reimagining that the following essay seeks to explore. As this volume of essays attests, in the wake of the Celtic Tiger the term 'postnational' encompasses a diverse range of contemporary Irish experience. This contribution will examine the roots of our postnational era within the framework of postmodern theory and apply these ideas to the work of the Northern Irish writer Robert McLiam Wilson.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRedefinitions of Irish Identity: A Postnationalist Approach
    EditorsIrene Gilsenan Nordin, Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Place of PublicationU.K.
    PublisherPeter Lang
    Pages125-140
    Number of pages16
    ISBN (Electronic)9783035300215
    ISBN (Print)9783039115587
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

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