- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853236269
- eISBN:
- 9781846313318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236269.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses a number of recent Northern Irish novels. A Wreath Upon the Dead can be regarded as an exemplary case of the persistence of an opposition within Northern Irish fiction between ...
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This chapter discusses a number of recent Northern Irish novels. A Wreath Upon the Dead can be regarded as an exemplary case of the persistence of an opposition within Northern Irish fiction between realism and an impulse towards the recursive. The modernism of Resurrection Man distinguished its own anachronism and called for the dissolution of the very conditions that produced it. Cycle of Violence engaged with the thriller genre and a troubled subversion of it. The novel can be usefully compared to Kissing the Frog in that both can be understood as Northern Irish Protestant popular fictions about the extension of bourgeois ideology into hostile territory. Fat Lad and Eureka Street were represented as a new mode of expression in Northern Irish fiction corresponding to a specific socio-historical change. In general, each of these novels represented a form of resistance.Less
This chapter discusses a number of recent Northern Irish novels. A Wreath Upon the Dead can be regarded as an exemplary case of the persistence of an opposition within Northern Irish fiction between realism and an impulse towards the recursive. The modernism of Resurrection Man distinguished its own anachronism and called for the dissolution of the very conditions that produced it. Cycle of Violence engaged with the thriller genre and a troubled subversion of it. The novel can be usefully compared to Kissing the Frog in that both can be understood as Northern Irish Protestant popular fictions about the extension of bourgeois ideology into hostile territory. Fat Lad and Eureka Street were represented as a new mode of expression in Northern Irish fiction corresponding to a specific socio-historical change. In general, each of these novels represented a form of resistance.
Jamie R. Abrams
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479805648
- eISBN:
- 9781479888733
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479805648.003.0013
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This Chapter argues that the domestic violence movement is narrowly politicized around the internalities of domestic violence in ways that unintentionally restrain law reform efforts to end family ...
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This Chapter argues that the domestic violence movement is narrowly politicized around the internalities of domestic violence in ways that unintentionally restrain law reform efforts to end family violence. While this internalities frame achieved critical successes in bringing domestic violence into the public frame and shaping critical interventions to it, it also collaterally immunized the state from accountability by paradoxically positioning the crisis of domestic violence and accountability for effective interventions squarely on victims and victim support networks. Expanding the politicization of domestic violence to also include the externalities of domestic violence is a critical – albeit uncomfortable – shift to move from intervening in domestic violence on behalf of victims to ending domestic violence.Less
This Chapter argues that the domestic violence movement is narrowly politicized around the internalities of domestic violence in ways that unintentionally restrain law reform efforts to end family violence. While this internalities frame achieved critical successes in bringing domestic violence into the public frame and shaping critical interventions to it, it also collaterally immunized the state from accountability by paradoxically positioning the crisis of domestic violence and accountability for effective interventions squarely on victims and victim support networks. Expanding the politicization of domestic violence to also include the externalities of domestic violence is a critical – albeit uncomfortable – shift to move from intervening in domestic violence on behalf of victims to ending domestic violence.
