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With this study Shahriyar Mansouri examines the ways in which the critical structure of modern Irish Bildungsroman deconstructs and re-examines ´residues of past trauma´ present in the nation´s unfortunate engagement with the postcolonial Irish State´s politics of formation. The result, Mansouri argues, is a resistant and radical form which introduces non-conformist, post-Joycean protagonists, whose antithetical perception of history and socio-cultural norms contradicts the conservative efforts of the post-independence Irish State. To examine such a resistant critical structure, Mansouri focuses on 13 novels from 11 notable Irish novelists, such as Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, Edna O´Brien, John McGahern, Francis Stuart and William Trevor. The selected novels provide an invaluable insight into the nation´s perception of sensitive concepts such as modernism and modern Irish identity, and how the confluence of these two produces a critical dialectical discourse which chronicles the formation of a non-conformist, ahistorical modern protagonist.

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Shahriyar Mansouri specializes in twentieth-century Irish novel, with additional interests in theory of the novel, historical fiction, biopolitics, and a Deleuzian reading of (post-) nationalist identity. He is Assistant Professor of English at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran-Iran, and IASIL Regional Bibliography Representative for Iran.

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