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Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Paperback – April 30, 2015

by Alison Donnell (Editor), Maria McGarrity (Editor), Evelyn O'Callaghan (Editor),

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There has been an Irish presence within the Caribbean since at least the 1620s and yet the historical and cultural dimensions of this encounter remain relatively underresearched and are often conceived of in reductive terms by crude markers such as redlegs or poor whites. While there are some striking reminders of this history througout the region, this collection explores how the complications and contradictions of Irish-Caribbean relations are much richer and deeper than previously recognized.

Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important contribution to Irish studies by challenging the dominance of a US diasporic history and a disciplinary focus on cultural continuity and ancestry. Likewise, within Caribbean studies, the Irish presence troubles the orthodox historical models for understanding race and the plantation, race and class structures, as well as questions of ethnic and religious minorities. The contributors emphasize the importance of understanding the transatlantic nexus between Ireland and the Caribbean in terms of the shared historical experiences of dislocation, diaspora and colonization, as well as of direct encounter.

This collection pays tribute to the extraordinarily rich tradition of cultural expression that informs both cultures and their imagination of each other.

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320 pages
Language

English
Publisher

University Press of the West Indies
Publication date

April 30, 2015
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5.98 x 0.79 x 9.02 inches
ISBN-10

9766405042
ISBN-13

978-9766405045
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ALISON DONNELL is Professor of Modern Literatures in English, University of Reading. Her publications include Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History and The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (co-edited with Michael Bucknor).

MARIA McGARRITY is Associate Professor of English, Long Island University, Brooklyn. Her publications include Washed by the Gulf Stream: The Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature and (co-edited with Claire A. Culleton) Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive.

EVELYN O’CALLAGHAN is Professor of West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Her publications include Woman Version: Theoretical Approaches to West Indian Fiction by Women and Women Writing the West Indies 1804–1939: A Hot Place, Belonging to Us.

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Publisher : University Press of the West Indies (April 30, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 9766405042
ISBN-13 : 978-9766405045
Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
Dimensions : 5.98 x 0.79 x 9.02 inches

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Richard Stoffle

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Well written with important chapters. The Irish made important contributions to Caribbean culture especially since they were the first un free laborers.

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M. Kamel Igoudjil

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