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BL
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1003430
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b757800
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| Main Entry
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Whalen, Lachlan,1969-
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| Title & Author
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Contemporary Irish Republican prison writing : : writing and resistance /\ Lachlan Whalen.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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New directions in Irish and Irish American literature
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| Page. NO
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xii, 244 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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1403981930
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: 9781403981936
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : Taoibh Amuigh agus Faoi Ghlas : the counter-aesthetics of republican prison writing -- "Our barbed wire ivory tower" : the cages of Long Kesh -- "Comrades in the dark" : writing in the H Blocks, 1976-1981 -- "Silence or cell? : women writing in Armagh, Maghaberry, and Durham -- "Captive voices" : post-1981 republican prison writing -- Postscript : " you look like Jesus Christ" : images of republican POWs in contemporary cinema.
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| Abstract
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"The first book devoted entirely to a critical examination of contemporary Irish prison literature, Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing explicates extant and previously unpublished texts by world-famous figures like Gerry Adams and Bobby Sands as well as the works of lesser-known and anonymous authors, paying special attention to women's writing. This book analyzes Republican resistance within Northern Irish prisons as it traces the textual history of these writings, demonstrating the ways in which POWs appropriate prison space through discursive strategies. As it explores the aesthetic alterity of prison writing, Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing critiques traditional assumptions about literature, simultaneously shedding light on the continuing conservatism of canonical boundaries."--Jacket.
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Political prisoners' writings, Irish.
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Political prisoners-- Northern Ireland-- History-- 20th century.
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Republicanism-- Northern Ireland-- History-- 20th century.
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Political prisoners' writings, Irish.
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Political prisoners.
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Prisonniers politiques-- Irlande-- 20e siècle.
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Republicanism.
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Northern Ireland.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/206927
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| LC Classification
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DA990.U46W43 2007
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