Description
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.
About the Author
Abby Bender is an adjunct assistant professor of Irish studies at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House, USA
Book Information
ISBN 9780815633990
Author Abby Bender
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Syracuse University Press
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Weight(grams) 540g