Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia »

EOIN FLANNERY is Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is co-editor of Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography (2007).

This book is an interrogative critical genealogy of all facets of Irish postcolonial studies, situating it within broader debates on international neo-imperialism, globalization, and development.

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: Ireland: 'A Supreme Postcolonial Instance'? 1

1 Field Day and Irish Postcolonial Criticism 19

2 Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse 48

3 Postcolonial Metacriticism - The 'Second Wave' 102

4 Ireland, Gender and Postcolonialism 146

5 Fanon's One Big Idea: Revising Postcolonial Studies and Irish Studies 182

Conclusion: Postcolonial Studies and Contemporary Politics 233

Notes 241

Bibliography 246

Index 26