Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland

Pilar Villar-Argáiz is a Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Literature at the University of Granada, Spain

• 1. Introduction. The immigrant in contemporary Irish literature – Pilar Villar-ArgáizPART I: IRISH MULTICULTURALISMS: OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES2. White Irish male playwrights and the immigrant experience onstage – Charlotte McIvor3. Strangers in a strange land?: The new Irish multicultural literature – Amanda Tucker4. ‘A nation of Others’: The immigrant in contemporary Irish poetry – Pilar Villar-Argáiz5. Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger novels – Margarita Estévez-SaáPART II: ‘RETHINKING IRELAND’ AS A POSTNATIONALIST COMMUNITY6. ‘Who is Irish?’: Roddy Doyle’s hyphenated identities – Eva Roa White7. ‘Our identity is our own instability’: Intercultural exchanges and the redefinition of identity in Hugo Hamilton’s Disguise and Hand in Fire – Carmen Zamorano Llena8. ‘Many and terrible are the roads to home’: Representations of the immigrant in the contemporary Irish short story– Anne Fogarty9. Writing the ‘new Irish’ into Ireland’s old narratives: The poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Mary O’Malley, and Michael Hayes – Katarzyna PoloczecPART III: ‘THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED’: ‘PERFORMING’ IRISHNESS THROUGH INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS10. ‘Marooned men in foreign cities’: Encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger’s The Ballymun Trilogy – Paula Murphy11. ‘Like a foreigner / in my native land’: Transculturality and Otherness in twenty-first-century Irish poetry – Michaela Schrage-Früh12. Irish multicultural epiphanies: Modernity and the recuperation of migrant memory in the writing of Hugo Hamilton – Jason King13. The Parts: Whiskey, tea, and sympathy – Katherine O’Donnell14. Hospitality and hauteur: Tourism, cross-cultural space, and ethics in Irish poetry – Charles I. ArmstrongPART IV: GENDER AND THE CITY15. Towards a multiracial Ireland: Black Baby’s revision of Irish motherhood – Maureen T. Reddy16. Beginning history again: Gendering the foreigner in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero – Wanda Balzano17. ‘Goodnight and joy be with you all’: Tales of contemporary Dublin city life – Loredana Salis18. Mean streets, new lives: The representations of non-Irish immigrants in recent Irish crime fiction – David ClarkIndex

"Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland. The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature represents, thus, an illuminating, comprehensive and challenging first full-length publication on migration to Ireland and its representation in Irish literature."(Asier Altuna-García de Salazar, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Estudios Irlandeses, Number 9, 2014)