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- Title: Review Essay: 'a Drift of Chosen Females?': The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vols. 4 and 5 (Book Review)
- Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Reference,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Language Arts & Disciplines,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 353 KB
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When Seamus Deane, as General Editor, set out his aims for the original volumes of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, he suggested that there was a story encompassed within the work which was, 'hospitable to all the micro-narratives that from time to time, have achieved prominence as the official version of the true history/of the island's past'. In attempting 'an act of definition rather than a definitive act', the Field Day project did not aim to establish a canon, any more than it set out to be inclusive, arguing that, 'sheer inclusiveness is not, of itself, a virtue or even an advantage. Selection is not made from a pre-ordained "tradition"; it is selection which ordains the tradition(s)'. The original volumes stepped into the perceived gap between cultural versions of Ireland and the political systems which operated on the island. There was an hegemonic or counter-hegemonic (depending on your point of view) thrust to the volumes which reflected the political aesthetic of northern nationalism. In presenting their act of definition, the contributors saw part of the significance of their work in terms of the power of the English canonical tradition to absorb a great deal of writing that, from a different point of view could be reclaimed as Irish. 'Such acts of annexation and reclamation', Deane wrote, 'are integral to the assertion of cultural authority and confidence, but the assumptions on which they are based are frail indeed'.
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