Contentious Terrains: Boglands, Ireland, Postcolonial Gothic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781782052043)

This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or bogs) are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture (1880s-present). Drawing on a range of Irish writers, including Bram Stoker, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, Daniel Corkery, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr, Deirdre Kinahan, Erin Hart, and Tim Robinson, Contentious Terrains argues that the destabilizing capacities of the bog provide a space to explore historically fraught colonial tensions and social struggles through the postcolonial Gothic form.

Author: Derek Gladwin
ISBN-10: 1782052046
ISBN-13: 9781782052043
Publisher: Cork University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/23/2016
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d