Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690–1830
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690–1830"
English | ISBN: 019889483X | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 019889483X | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study of an everyday object in colonial Ireland (coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and pigs) to examine how each object's unique materiality contributed to the colonial ideology of British paternalism and afforded creative Irish expression.
The main argument of Irish Materialisms is its methodology: of reading literature through the agency of materiality and nonhuman narrative in order to gain a more egalitarian and varied understanding of colonial experience.
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