Lloyd argues that nineteenth-century Irish Nationalism, in demanding that Irish literature concentrate on representing Irish identity, actually imports a British cultural model which remains a powerful instrument of imperialist hegemony. James Clarence Mangan's writings, composed in the early decades of Irish nationalism, bear the marks of resistance to that model.
- ISBN10 0520058240
- ISBN13 9780520058248
- Publish Date 4 September 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 October 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English