Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society

María Amor Barros-del Río is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Burgos (Spain), and Secretary of AEDEI (the Spanish Association for Irish Studies). She has published widely on contemporary Irish literature and her work has been recognised by positive reviews in international journals, grants and awards received to date.

• Introduction. María Amor Barros del Río.Part I. Texts that Blur Frontiers: The Island of Ireland and Beyond1. Transculturality and the Ghost of Roger Casement in Ulysses, by James Joyce. Mariana Bolfarine.2. Censorship and the Poetry of Ciaran Carson and Marin Sorescu: A Transcultural Reading. Shannon Kuta Kelly.3. Transculturality and Seán Dunne’s Translation of Russian Poetry. Stephanie Schwerter.Part II: Transcultural Writers and Global Entanglements 4. Social Borders and Contact Zones in Leland Bardwell’s Different Kinds of Love. Burcu Gülüm Tekin.5. Contested Boundaries and Uncharted Entanglements in Evelyn Conlon’s Moving About the Place. Melania Terrazas and María Amor Barros-del Río.6. Transculturality and Ken Bruen’s Crime Fiction. David M. Clark.Part III: Irish Social Diversity and Contemporary Literature in Dialogue7. Transcultural Practices, Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion in Irish Young Adult Literature. Iria Seijas-Pérez.8. Migrations in Times of Referendums. Transcultural Negotiations in Donal Ryan’s Strange Flowers and Oona Frawley’s Flight: “Why Ireland?... Don’t Go to England”. Margarita Estévez Saá.9. Negotiating Second-Generation Transcultural Irishness: Susan Ryan’s The King of Lavender Square. Asier Altuna-García de Salazar.10. Resistance and Activism in Queer and HIV/AIDS Irish Theatre. J. Javier Torres-Fernández.Coda11. The Past, the Present and the Wonderful, Worrisome Future: Transculturalism, Memory and Crisis in Irish Studies. Gerry Smyth.