Violence, politics and textual interventions in Northern Ireland /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mahon, Peter, 1971-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:	English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism. Authors, Irish > 20th century > Political and social views. Authors, Irish > 20th century > History and criticism. Politics and literature > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century. Literature and society > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century. Northern Ireland > Intellectual life. Northern Ireland > In literature. Political violence in literature. Social conflict in literature. Violence in literature.

Table of Contents:

Blood, shit and tears: the textual reinscription of sacrifice, ritual and victimhood in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal
The law's terrifying double: "Legal Panic" in Glenn Patterson's That which was
Family matters: Jim Sheridan's In the name of the father and Terry George's Some mother's son
States of desire in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto
"Something like God": shit, orifices, and bodily signifiers in Louise Dean's This human season.