The Cultural Politics of In/Difference: Irish Texts and Contexts

Contents: – Introduction – Systemic Crime and Social Disaffection in Benjamin Black’s Quirke Series: A Struggle for Difference – Erin’s Sons and Decent Daughters: The Biopolitics of Rural Masculinities in Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn (1948) – Anne Griffin’s When All Is Said (2019): A Different Haunting Ageing Masculinity in Irish Fiction – The Guts (2013): The Quintessence of Roddy Doyle’s Art of Fiction – ‘Girls just wanna have fun’: Female Adolescence and Joyful Insurrection in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Dancers Dancing (1999) and Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls (2018– ) – Girls and Women in Rosaleen McDonagh’s Mainstream: Celebrating Difference – Bridging Differences or Burning Bridges: Transforming the Chorus in Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy – Death- worlds and Necropolitics of Abjection in Emma Donoghue’s ‘Counting the Days’ – From Virtual to Aborted Citizens: Childbirth and Citizenship in the Republic of Ireland – ‘New energies’ on ‘the threshold of an old art’: Democratic Sparkles in Contemporary Irish Poetry – The Violent Othering of Women and Animals in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s and Luz Pichel’s Poetry – ‘Cork is very much male – and so is working class’: An Interview with Lisa McInerney.