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A Postnationalist Critique of Irish Nation-State Ideology in Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger
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In The Great Hunger (1942) Patrick Kavanagh opens an Irish postnational- ist discourse. Taking advantage of historical revisionism and postcolonialism, he not only demystifies a romantic nationalist ideology rooted in rural Ireland but also searches for an autonomous literary tradition free of the Irish Literary Revival, supposedly an outcome of a colonial influence. As a farmer-poet, Kavanagh deconstructs in two ways myths of rural areas, to which the Revivalists aspire. Contrary to Revivalism, he reveals that rural Ireland is not an idealized place where national identity arises and individual spirits are restored. It is instead a cruel place where farmer Maguire, deprived of health, wealth, and love, is tortured by hard labor in the field, moral regulations imposed by the Church, and his mother’s domestic authority, all of which leave him unmarried until age sixty-five. Kavanagh also challenges the Revivalist tradition, led by W. B. Yeats commonly referred to as the poet of the nation, by indicting its reliance on former colonial authority and its lack of a sense of communal autonomy, both of which are diagnosed as “provincial- ism” by Kavanagh. Given that modern Irish literature has been strongly col- ored as nationalistic during the course of anticolonial resistance, Kavanagh’s critique of the Revival in The Great Hunger, whose proponents blindly beau- tify the lives of farmers, runs directly against the grain of the founding ideolo- gy of the Irish nation-state. His voice, like that of a whistle-blower, disclosing the harsh realities of rural Ireland, ushers in a “post”-nationalist perspective on nation and national myths in Irish poetics.
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In The Great Hunger (1942) Patrick Kavanagh opens an Irish postnational- ist discourse. Taking advantage of historical revisionism and postcolonialism, he not only demystifies a romantic nationalist ideology rooted in rural Ireland but also searches for an autonomous literary tradition free of the Irish Literary Revival, supposedly an outcome of a colonial influence. As a farmer-poet, Kavanagh deconstructs in two ways myths of rural areas, to which the Revivalists aspire. Contrary to Revivalism, he reveals that rural Ireland is not an idealized place where national identity arises and individual spirits are restored. It is instead a cruel place where farmer Maguire, deprived of health, wealth, and love, is tortured by hard labor in the field, moral regulations imposed by the Church, and his mother’s domestic authority, all of which leave him unmarried until age sixty-five. Kavanagh also challenges the Revivalist tradition, led by W. B. Yeats commonly referred to as the poet of the nation, by indicting its reliance on former colonial authority and its lack of a sense of communal autonomy, both of which are diagnosed as “provincial- ism” by Kavanagh. Given that modern Irish literature has been strongly col- ored as nationalistic during the course of anticolonial resistance, Kavanagh’s critique of the Revival in The Great Hunger, whose proponents blindly beau- tify the lives of farmers, runs directly against the grain of the founding ideolo- gy of the Irish nation-state. His voice, like that of a whistle-blower, disclosing the harsh realities of rural Ireland, ushers in a “post”-nationalist perspective on nation and national myths in Irish poetics.
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