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Literary visions of multicultural Ireland is the first full-length monograph in the market to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers. The book opens with a lively, challenging preface by Prof. Declan Kiberd and is followed by eighteen essays by leading and prestigious scholars in the field of Irish studies from both sides of the Atlantic who address, in pioneering, differing and enriching ways, the emerging multiethnic character of Irish literature. Key areas of discussion are: What does it mean to be 'multicultural,' and what are the implications of this condition for contemporary Irish writers? How has literature in Ireland responded to inward migration? Have Irish writers reflected in their work (either explicitly or implicitly) the existence of migrant communities in Ireland? If so, are elements of Irish traditional culture and community maintained or transformed? What is the social and political efficacy of these intercultural artistic visions? While these issues have received sustained academic attention in literary contexts with longer traditions of migration, they have yet to be extensively addressed in Ireland today. The collection will thus be of interest to students and academics of contemporary literature as well as the general reader willing to learn more about Ireland and Irish culture. Overall, this book will become most useful to scholars working in Irish studies, contemporary Irish literature, multiculturalism, migration, globalisation and transculturality. Writers discussed include Hugo Hamilton, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, {acute}Eil{acute}is N{acute}i Dhuibhne, Dermot Bolger, Chris Binchy, Michael O'Loughlin, Emer Martin and Kate O'Riordan, amongst others.

Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Irish literature --- English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- History and criticism. --- Irish authors --- Cultural Studies --- Literary Studies: From C 1900 --- -LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Ireland --- Celtic-Tiger Ireland. --- Immigration. --- Irish literature. --- Literary criticism. --- Multiculturalism. --- Transculturality.

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"This book examines ways in which contemporary ethnic American writers reimagine and revise nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts central to the American literary canon"--

National characteristics, American, in literature. --- American fiction --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Intertextuality. --- American literature --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism.

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Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie's ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties-ecological disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism-has ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international scholarship.Zombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. Zombie Theory collects the best interdisciplinary zombie scholarship from around the world. Essays portray the zombie not as a singular cultural figure or myth but show how the undead represent larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagion and technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusion and oppression, dehumanization. As presented here, zombies are not simple metaphors; rather, they emerge as a critical mode for theoretical work. With its diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches, Zombie Theory thinks through what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other.Contributors: Fred Botting, Kingston U; Samuel Byrnand, U of Canberra; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington U; Jean Comaroff, Harvard U; John Comaroff, Harvard U; Edward P. Comentale, Indiana U; Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut; Karen Embry, Portland Community College; Barry Keith Grant, Brock U; Edward Green, Roosevelt U; Lars Bang Larsen; Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky U; Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U; Shaka McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY; David McNally, York U; Tavia Nyong'o, Yale U; Simon Orpana, U of Alberta; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Ola Sigurdson, U of Gothenburg; Jon Stratton, University of South Australia; Eugene Thacker, The New School; Sherryl Vint, U of California Riverside; Priscilla Wald, Duke U; Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky U; Jen Webb, U of Canberra; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U.

Cultural pluralism in literature --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- American fiction --- Globalization in literature --- American literature --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- History and criticism --- Southern States --- In literature. --- E-books --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture --- Zombies in popular culture --- Zombies --- Zombis --- Dead --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Globalization in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Zombies. --- Zombies in popular culture. --- Social aspects.

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American literature --- Cultural pluralism in literature --- Literature and society --- Language and culture --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Power (Social sciences) in literature --- Minorities in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Minorities as a theme in literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Theory, etc --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects

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Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic relations in literature. --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Yan, Geling --- Alameddine, Rabih --- Zhang, Chengzhi, --- Kuo, Alexander --- Criticism and interpretation. --- United States --- China --- Ethnic relations. --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Government policy