This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. Includes discussions of Booker Prize winners Roddy Doyle and James Kelman.

Autorentext
Mary M. McGlynn is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Inhalt
The Poor Mouth * James Joyce and the Urban Periphery: Towards a Working Class Modernism * 'Make out It_s Not Unnatural at All': Janice Galloway's Mother Tongue * Barrytown Irish: Location, Language, and Class in Roddy Doyle's early novels * 'Ye_ve No to Wander:' James Kelman's Vernacular Spaces * Eoin McNamee's Local Language * The Poor Mouth Revisited