Literature, Partition and the Nation State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine

Cultural Margins

by Joe Cleary

This study offers an extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. Focusing on the period since the 1960s, when the original partition settlements in each region were challenged by Irish and Palestinian nationalists, Joe Cleary's book contains individual chapters on nationalism and self-determination; on the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and on influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals.

Genres: Irish Literature, Nonfiction, Politics, History, Ireland

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 1998