C. Culleton & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive 

This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.

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PART I: AMBIVALENT PRIMITIVES: RESPONDING TO THE CELTIC REVIVAL Queering the Revivalists’s Pitch: Joycean Engagements with Primitivisim; J.Mc Court Robots and Rebels: Technological and Organic Discourse in Pearse’s Political Essays; B.A.Suess ‘Magnificent Words and Gestures’: Defining the Primitive in Synge’s The aran Islands: E.Gilmatrin PART II: PRIMITIVISM, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION The Ethnographic Roots of Joyce’s Modernism: Exhibiting Ireland’s Primitives in the National Museum and the ‘Nestor’ Episode; K.St.Peters Lancia Visible Others: Photography and Romantic Ethnography in Ireland; J.Carville ‘The Loveliness Which has Not Yet Come Into the World’: Translation as a Revisitation of Joyce’s (Irish) Modernism; M.T. Caneda-Cabrera Primitive Emancipation: Religion, Sexuality, and Freedom in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses: M.Mc Garrity PART III: GENDER, PRIMITIVISM AND THE BODY ‘Reluctant Indians’: Irish Identity and Racial Masquerade; G.Winston Female Militancy and Irish Primitivism: Dorothy Macardle’s Earth-Bound; L.Weihman Domestic Gothic, The Global Primitive, and Gender Relations in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and The House in Paris; P.Lassner & P.Derdiger The Gaelic Athletic Association, Joyce, and the Primitive Body; C.A.Culleton

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CLAIRE A. CULLETON is Professor of Modern British and Irish Literature, Kent State University, USA.
MARIA MCGARRITY is Associate Professor of English, Long Island University, USA.