Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008 Gender, Bodies, Memory

With the Celtic Tiger well and truly dead, it's time for the post-mortem to begin, and this book represents a significant contribution to that process. Susan Cahill's study of a number of important novelists offers an overview of an extraordinary period in modern Irish history, as well as close analyses of some of the most sensitive artistic responses to the island's changing fortunes. In teasing out the complex interplay between time, memory and the body, Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years challenges the theoretical parameters of contemporary Irish cultural criticism, while also providing a compelling vision of the vicissitudes of modern Irish identity.--Sanford Lakoff