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What Danger Can There Be in Being the Shadow of a Gunman in Dublin, at Easter, in 1916?: Political Hauntologies in Joyce, O'Casey, and Yeats

What Danger Can There Be in Being the Shadow of a Gunman in Dublin, at Easter, in 1916?: Political Hauntologies in Joyce, O'Casey, and Yeats

Daniel C. Bristow
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781522523918|ISBN10: 152252391X|EISBN13: 9781522523925
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2391-8.ch001
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Bristow, Daniel C. "What Danger Can There Be in Being the Shadow of a Gunman in Dublin, at Easter, in 1916?: Political Hauntologies in Joyce, O'Casey, and Yeats." Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature, edited by Önder Çakırtaş, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2391-8.ch001

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Bristow, D. C. (2017). What Danger Can There Be in Being the Shadow of a Gunman in Dublin, at Easter, in 1916?: Political Hauntologies in Joyce, O'Casey, and Yeats. In Ö. Çakırtaş (Ed.), Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature (pp. 1-24). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2391-8.ch001

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Bristow, Daniel C. "What Danger Can There Be in Being the Shadow of a Gunman in Dublin, at Easter, in 1916?: Political Hauntologies in Joyce, O'Casey, and Yeats." In Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature, edited by Önder Çakırtaş, 1-24. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2391-8.ch001

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Abstract

As the centenary of the events of the Rising that took place in Dublin in Easter week 1916 revolves around us, this article revisits the period, and its before and after, through the lens of three literary works – James Joyce's Dubliners (1914), Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and W. B. Yeats' ‘Easter, 1916' (1916, pub. 1921) – employing theorisations of temporality set out in Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx (1993), and a concentration on ideological messaging in the forms of hauntological ellipses and spectral insignias, to analyse the events and map their potentials, then, and their effects on the present day.

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