The Cultural Politics of In/Difference

Dr Aida Rosende-Pérez is Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands. Her research has focused principally on the politics and poetics of transnational feminism, specializing in transnational women’s literature and cultural production, and paying special attention to the narratives and (audio)visual productions of contemporary Irish women writers and artists. Dr Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez is Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands. His research has focused on British Cultural Studies and the influence of Anglophone cultures in Spain; William Shakespeare in twentieth century Spain, masculinities in British telefantasy and sci-fi.

Contents: – Introduction – Systemic Crime and Social Disaffection in Benjamin Black’s Quirke Series: A Struggle for Difference – Erin’s Sons and Decent Daughters: The Biopolitics of Rural Masculinities in Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn (1948) – Anne Griffin’s When All Is Said (2019): A Different Haunting Ageing Masculinity in Irish Fiction – The Guts (2013): The Quintessence of Roddy Doyle’s Art of Fiction – ‘Girls just wanna have fun’: Female Adolescence and Joyful Insurrection in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Dancers Dancing (1999) and Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls (2018– ) – Girls and Women in Rosaleen McDonagh’s Mainstream: Celebrating Difference – Bridging Differences or Burning Bridges: Transforming the Chorus in Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy – Death- worlds and Necropolitics of Abjection in Emma Donoghue’s ‘Counting the Days’ – From Virtual to Aborted Citizens: Childbirth and Citizenship in the Republic of Ireland – ‘New energies’ on ‘the threshold of an old art’: Democratic Sparkles in Contemporary Irish Poetry – The Violent Othering of Women and Animals in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s and Luz Pichel’s Poetry – ‘Cork is very much male – and so is working class’: An Interview with Lisa McInerney.