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Contentious Terrains : Boglands in the Irish Postcolonial Gothic /
This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or peat bogs) are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture from the 1880s to the present. Bogs are more than ubiquitous landforms in Ireland. They function as a kind of narrative that reveals some of...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Foreword / by Claire Connolly
- Introduction : indeterminate boglands and the Irish postcolonial Gothic
- 1. The protean nature of bogs
- 2. Environments of empire
- 3. Spectral histories of nationalism
- 4. Mapping gothic bog bodies
- 5. Gendered boglands
- 6. Bog Gothic, bog noir, and eco-bog writing
- Conclusion : uncertain futures.