A Poetics of Dissensus: Confronting Violence in Contemporary Prose Writing from the North of Ireland

Twenty years after the peace process began in the North of Ireland, many thorny political issues remain unresolved.One of the most significant questions involves the means by which acts of violence and the ideologies that subtended them can be dealt with, interrogated and questioned without rekindling conflict. This book focuses on a number of fictional and non-fictional texts published during the last two decades and analyses, through the prism of French cultural philosopher Jacques Ranci�re�s work, the emergence of an aesthetics of dissensus within these novels, short stories, graphic novels and memoirs. Associating close textual analyses with wider contextual readings, the book investigates the overlap of politics, aesthetics and the redistribution of the sensible in recent prose works, revealing how the authors avoid the pitfalls of a facile discourse of peace and reconciliation that whitewashes the past and behind which unaddressed tensions may continue to simmer. Additional ISBNs 3034309791, 3035306281, 9783034309790, 9783035306286A Poetics of Dissensus: Confronting Violence in Contemporary Prose Writing from the North of Ireland 1st Edition is written by Fiona Mc Cann and published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for A Poetics of Dissensus are 9783035395075, 3035395071 and the print ISBNs are 9783034309790, 3034309791. Additional ISBNs include 3034309791, 3035306281, 9783034309790, 9783035306286.