Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture

Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: a weak theory of transnationalism Cóilín Parsons; Part I. Transnational Genealogies: 1. 'A World of New Wonders': Maria Edgeworth's Atlantic ecology and the limits of transnationalism in the nineteenth century Sonja Lawrenson; 2. 'I'm apparently not famous anymore': appropriating Dion Boucicault's octoroon and reckoning with racial violence in America Chanté Mouton Kinyon; 3. Destitute recollection: Joyce's Indian translocations Udaya Kumar; 4. 'Under the shadow of the Monument': on first looking into Finnegans Wake Peter D. McDonald; 5. Eironesian Island others: Irish Islands within Pacific waters Maebh Long; Part II. Planets: 6. Stargazing in Joyce and Walcott: navigating colonial entanglements with asterisms Maria McGarrity; 7. Ireland, literature, and the blue humanitie Nicholas Allen; 8. You have gas: reading for Irish energy Michael Rubenstein; 9. 'Unbearably Intimate Connections': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the planet Nathan Suhr-Sytsma; Part III. Missed Translations: 10. Sounding authentic: renditions of Central and Eastern European Literature by Irish writers Aidan O'Malley; 11. Irish literature, (Irish-)American culture, and 'Hiberno-American Blandness' Tara Stubbs; 12. Ngundalehla Godotgai–A Bundjalung version of waiting for Godot Peter Kuch; Part IV. Transnational Futures: 13. Irish fiction, small presses, and the world-system Matthew Eatough; 14. Resources and repertoires: language in Irish fiction after globalization Michael Malouf; 15. Roots and crowns: race and hair culture in traveller and black women's writing Mary M. Burke and Sarah L. Townsend; 16. Conflict and care: Edna O'Brien's Girl, Colum McCann's Apeirogon, and the limits of interculturality Fiona McCann; Bibliography; Index.