The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry
by
Julia C. Obert
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Postcolonial Overtures explores the importance of sound in contemporary Northern Irish writing, focusing on the work of three canonical poets: Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon. Obert argues that these poets respond to what Edward Said calls "geographical violence"—to the stratification...