We're the Boys Built the Empire
National Media and Postcolonial Encounters in Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3619670 |
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| Authors | Danny Shanahan (0000-0002-0240-5939, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 868-879 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256868.2024.2357124 |
| OpenAlex | W4399179604 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper considers Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man (1994) as aTroubles novel acutely interested in the ways violence is transcribed into text.It argues McNamee's depictions of the media satirise their attempt to contain historical explanations of the Troubles exclusively within the inherent sectarianism of the region.Instead, McNamee creates discursive encounters between Ulster and different trouble spots around the world, summoning the spectres of British imperialism.Through a discussion of decolonisation, memory and the legacies of Empire, the paper engages with the ways the local and the international intersect to interrogate nationalisms, borders, identities and historical representation
Ancient history · Art · Decolonization · Empire · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sectarianism · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Law
Ulster Unionism and British Broadcasting Journalism, 1924–89
History and memory in modern Ireland
State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles
Ulsterisation and the Troubles thriller
Interpreting Northern Ireland
The Media and Northern Ireland
Frames of war
The Cartographies of Violence
Formations of Violence
| Highly cited | No |
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