{"product_id":"9780815634003","title":"Postcolonial Overtures : The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry (Irish Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Overtures explores the importance of sound in contemporary Northern Irish writing, focusing on the work of three canonical poets: Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon. Obert argues that these poets respond to what Edward Said calls \"\"geographical violence\"\"—to the stratification of the North's visual spaces; to the sectarian symbols splashed across Belfast and beyond—by turning from the eye to the ear, tentatively remapping place in acoustic space. Carson, for instance, casts Troubles-era Belfast as a \"\"demolition city,\"\" its landmarks \"\"swallowed in the maw of time and trouble,\"\" and tries to compensate for this inhospitality by reimagining landscape as soundscape, an immersive auditory field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis strategy suggests sound's political and affective potential: music, accent, and even comfortingly familiar white noise can help subjects, otherwise unmoored, feel at home. Drawing on a diverse range of fields, Obert devotes two chapters to the examination of each poet's work, allowing room for both in-depth formalist readings and contextual and theoretical understandings of the poems and their reverberating effects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48688708681963,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":64.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780815634003-1.jpg?v=1785755888","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780815634003","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}