Mother/Country

Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín

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Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

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Reimagining Ireland

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This original and engaging study explores the way in which Colm Tóibín repeatedly identifies and disrupts the boundaries between personal and political or social histories in his fiction. Through this collapsing of boundaries, he examines the cost of broader political exclusions and considers how personal and political narratives shape individual subjects. Each of Tóibín’s novels is comprehensively addressed here, as are his non-fiction works, reviews, plays, short stories, and some as-yet-unpublished work. The book situates Tóibín not only within his contemporary literary milieu, but also within the contexts of the Irish literary tradition, contemporary Irish politics, Irish nationalism, and theories of psychology, gender, nationalism, and postcolonialism.

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Kathleen Costello-Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Modern Irish Literature at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, USA, where she founded and directs an Irish Literature minor. She has published widely on Anglo-Irish and Irish authors, including Jonathan Swift, Somerville and Ross, Maria Edgeworth, Emily Lawless, and Colm Tóibín, and her critical edition of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla is forthcoming.

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January 30th, 2012

Author

Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

New edition

Pages

237

Series

Reimagining Ireland

ISBN-13

9783034307536

Product ID

20351350

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