‘Belonging without Belonging’: Colm Tóibín’s Dialogue with the Past
Tóibín is not the archetypal ‘revisionist’ intellectual that some have made him into, but rather a sort of in-between, making a virtue of his own ambivalences towards notions of tradition, community and nationhood. In this essay some of these ambivalences are scrutinised with special reference to tw...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
2005-03-01
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Online Access: | http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MichaelBoss.pdf |