ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture : History of English Literature-Mar.13 "The Modern Empire"
13 Mar 2012
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Maps of british possessions as ideological and hegemonic devices. Ireland: the empire experiment: 1500s and 1600s england gained control over the island. North america: 1800s growing call for home rule. Increased demonization of irish catholic fomenting racial hatred (and in america in the 1900s: 1916 easter rising in dublin violently suppressed, 1922 irish free state formed and the island is divided. the irish slowly extricate themselves from british control: diaspora: dispersion of people from their homeland. the homeland becomes the land of milk and honey, even though their return could have dire consequences. Middle class irish protestant: active in the celtic renaissance. movement in developing irish identity in literature, translating gaelic works to english, plays/theatres. folklore research: also a prominent voice in irish nationalism/recorder of the revolution. Gaelic is my national language but not my mother tongue . use of the language of the conqueror to express your individual identity as the conquered colonial paradox.
