Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel

Both masculinity and the Northern Irish conflict have been the subjects of a great deal of recent scholarship, yet there is a dearth of material on Northern Irish masculinity.Northern Ireland has a remarkable literary output relative to its population, but the focus of critical attention has been on poetry rather than the fine novels that have been written in and about Ulster. This book goes some way towards remedying the deficiency in critical attention to the Northern Irish novel and the lack of gendered approaches to Northern Irish literature and society.Sons of Ulster explores the representation of masculinity within a number of Northern Irish novels written since the mid-1990s, focusing on works by Eoin Mc Namee, Glenn Patterson and Robert Mc Liam Wilson. One of the key aims of the book is to disrupt notions of a hegemonic Northern Irish masculinity based on violent conflict and hyper-masculine sectarian rhetoric. The author uses the three sections of the text to represent the three key facets of Northern Irish masculinity: bodies, performances and subjectivity bound up with violence.Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel 1st Edition is written by Caroline Magennis and published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Sons of Ulster are 9783035300437, 3035300437 and the print ISBNs are 9783034301107, 3034301103.