Reshaping Nationalist Discourse: Irish Novelists of the Young Free State
Marchaterre, Madeleine Patrice
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Description
Title
Reshaping Nationalist Discourse: Irish Novelists of the Young Free State
Author(s)
Marchaterre, Madeleine Patrice
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
James Hurt
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, English
Language
eng
Abstract
With O'Nolan's novel The Poor Mouth (1941) as a guide, Chapter 4 looks at the importance of the language revival and peasant literature to constructions of Irishness. Drawing on popular peasant autobiographies and Revival literature, the novel, masquerading as autobiography, produces a metadiscourse about Irish identity that shatters the myth of authenticity at the heart of nationalism.
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