Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture

WANDA BALZANO is Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Wake Forest University, USA. She has published essays on Beckett, Joyce, Irish women's writing in theory, religion, art, and film, and she has co-edited the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms'. ANNE MULHALL is AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Women in Irish Culture Project, based at University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Her research focuses on critical theory, particularly feminist and queer theory, popular culture, women's writing in Ireland, and seventeenth-century literature

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: Race Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in The Wire and Rescue Me; Gerardine Meaney Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann; Maureen T.Reddy Marching, Minstrelsy, Masquerade: Parading White Loyalist Masculinity as 'Blackness'; Suzanna Chan 'Is it for the Glamour?': Masculinity, Nationhood and Amateurism in Contemporary Projections of the Gaelic Athletic Association; Mike Cronin PART II: Space 'Our Nuns are not a Nation': Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film; Elizabeth Butler Cullingford Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex, No Money, No Name; Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland; Kathryn Conrad Tracking the Luas between the Human and the Inhuman; Wanda Balzano & Jefferson Holdridge PART III: Diaspora Cinematic Constructions of Irish Musical Ethnicity; Christopher Smith St Patrick's Day Expulsions: Race and Homophobia in New York's Parade; Katherine O'Donnell Fantasy, Celebrity and 'Family Values' in High-end and Special Event Tourism in Ireland; Diane Negra A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men and Witty Women; Claire Bracken & Emma Radley PART IV: Aporia 'Let's Get Killed': Culture and Peace in Northern Ireland; Colin Graham Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and Mothering the Nation; Moynagh Sullivan Quare Theory; Noreen Giffney Camping up the Emerald Aisle: 'Queerness' in Irish Popular Culture; Anne Mulhall Index

'The 'new Ireland' so often made the subject of political commentary and economic reports still wants for engaged critical commentary. Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture theorises Celtic Tiger Ireland in all its cultural complexity. A fresh, lively and challenging collection.' - Claire Connolly, Cardiff University 'This remarkable collection of essays robustly displays the exciting diversity of contemporary Irish studies' engagement with global popular culture. Interrogating gender, genre, race, space, and migration, this volume brilliantly reassesses the Irish academy's ideological and theoretical commitments.' - Professor Cheryl Herr, Department of English, University of Iowa