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• Title: Ciaran Ross (Editor), Sub-Versions: Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature
• Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2011
• Genre: Reference,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Language Arts & Disciplines,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 59 KB

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Ciaran Ross (editor), Sub-Versions: Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature. Amersterdam: Rodopi, 2010. xii + 299 pages. GBP 59.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback). In his acknowledgements to the essay collection, Sub-Versions: TransNational Readings of Modern Irish Literature, Ciaran Ross states that the volume began at the 2002 meeting of the European Society for the Study of English Conference in Strausbourg. Comprised of a chapter-length introduction and twelve essays, the collection brings together critics from different cultures and backgrounds, but the subtitle is misleading, for there is little emphasis here on either a historically- or theoretically-oriented transnationalism: instead the focus is on the general trope of subversion. Transnationalism and subversion seem like a fruitful pairing--certainly, the notion of transnationalism causes us to rethink traditional understandings of modern Irish literature--but the collection often has a troubling tendency to reinforce nation-centered readings. Indeed, the volume opens with a foreword by Declan Kiberd, who harkens back to an ancient Gaelic past to suggest how the dual role of the fili (poets), whom he describes as 'rebels with a rooted love of their own tradition' is mirrored through contemporary Irish artists' cultural position (p.x). Kiberd asserts that 'since the founding of the Irish state, artists have oscillated between a model of loyal opposition and one of outright subversion,' further claiming that the former mode is a 'classic Anglo-American model' and the latter a 'European, specifically French, tradition' (p.xii). Kiberd's foreword exemplifies the entire collection's curious coupling of nationalism and transnationalism: it suggests an international dimension in its references to America and Europe, but this dimension is quickly overshadowed by national preoccupations.

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