Reading and Writing Race in Ireland
Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20054744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maureen T Reddy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 15-25 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230800588_2 |
| OpenAlex | W1511110865 |
| ISBN | 9780230800588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In this chapter, I examine one case of sustained intervention in discourses of race during a volatile period in Irish social life, focusing on Roddy Doyle's fiction serialized in Metro Eireann between May 2000 and December 2004: 'Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner', 'The Deportees', '57% Irish', 'I Understand' and 'Home to Harlem'. In the first four of these texts, Doyle explores the shifting meanings of Irishness and the complex, fraught relation of race and nation in an Ireland whose population is changing rapidly due to immigration. With the fifth story, 'Home to Harlem' (titled after Claude McKay's controversial 1928 novel), Doyle makes a move similar to the central conceit of his recent novel, Oh, Play That Thing (2004), moving his main character, a young Irish man, to the US and counterpointing Irish and American racial attitudes.1
Immigration · Irish · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |