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Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature
Malouf reviews Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature edited by Brenda Deen Schildgen, Gang Zhou, and Sander L. Gilman.
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Other Emerald Isles: Caribbean revisions of Irish cultural nationalism
My dissertation, “Other Emerald Isles: Caribbean Revisions of Irish Cultural Nationalism,” recovers the neglected literary and cultural history linking Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean. I demonstrate the formative role of Irish nationalist discourse in the transnational political and aesthetic self-fashioning of three influential Caribbean figures: Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and Derek Walcott. Reading Garvey's political speeches, McKay's essays and poetry, and Walcott's epic poem Omeros, I argue that each writer engages rhetorically with the work of Eamon de Valera, George Bernard Shaw, and James Joyce in order to reinvent his politics and aesthetics in pan-Africanist, socialist, and cosmopolitan terms. For these three Caribbean writers, the Irish writing and politics of this period articulate a disjunctive form of nationalism that not only refers to the nation, but to the experience of a diaspora population living in England and the United States. Garvey, McKay and Walcott each recognize and mobilize the transnational potential in the rhetoric of Irish nationalism as a means of refashioning their own politics and aesthetics as members of a Caribbean diaspora, inventing in the process three of the century's most influential models of Caribbean identity. In the final chapter, I focus on two popular Irish artists, the filmmaker and writer Neil Jordan and the musician Sinéad O'Connor, and their use of Afro-Caribbean subjects and themes in their work, which occur within the context of changing attitudes toward race and culture in Northern Ireland and in the Republic during the 1990s. Simultaneously reconsidering Irish culture in a global context and charting a cross-cultural intellectual history of the Caribbean, my project describes a transatlantic circulation of literary influences and nationalist identities that continues to play a critical role for contemporary Irish and Caribbean artists confronting changing political, economic, and racial conditions in their respective islands.
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