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Violence, politics and textual interventions in Northern Ireland / Peter Mahon

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Mahon, Peter, 1971-
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description
viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents
Blood, shit and tears: the textual reinscription of sacrifice, ritual and victimhood in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal -- The law's terrifying double: "Legal Panic" in Glenn Patterson's That which was -- Family matters: Jim Sheridan's In the name of the father and Terry George's Some mother's son -- States of desire in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto -- "Something like God": shit, orifices, and bodily signifiers in Louise Dean's This human season.
Summary
"The period of political and social unrest in Northern Ireland known as the 'Troubles' (1968-1998) is often depicted as the result of the repeated clashes of atavistic and instinctual tribal nationalisms. Mahon puts this view into question through a close examination of several key literary and cinematic 'Troubles texts'. Drawing on the literary-anthropological work of Rene Girard and the psychoanalytical work of Jacques Lacan, Mahon re-examines and re-appraises the deployment of certain recurrent motifs - such as language, violence, ritual, psycho-sexual dynamics, history, the law - in order to develop a flexible approach for engaging with the dynamic interplay of violence, sexuality and politics in Troubles texts. Through this framework, Mahon explores how such texts seek to intervene in violence and offer a range of political and psycho-sexual re-readings of the Troubles and their legacy."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN
9780230576438
0230576435
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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