Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Irish Studies
Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Irish Studies
ISBN: 978-0-8156-3399-0
Verlag: Syracuse University Press
Drawing upon both canonical and little-known texts of the Literary Revival, including works by Joyce, plays by Lady Gregory, and political writings by Charles Stewart Parnell and Patrick Pearse, Bender highlights the centrality of Exodus in Ireland. In doing so, she recuperates the history of a liberation narrative that was occluded by the aesthetic of 1916, when the Christ story replaced Exodus as a model for revolution and liberation. In two concluding chapters, Bender deftly maps Exodus throughout Joyce’s Ulysses, revealing how the text plumbs the biblical narrative for its submersed but frank and unsettling story of ambivalent, impure, ironic origins. With extensive research and remarkable insight, Israelites in Erin inaugurates a compelling new critical conversation.