Seamus Heaney`s Postcolonial Epistemology and Political Aesthetic

• Published in: 영미문학연구 Vol. 5; pp. 153 - 176
• Main Author: Yoo Hyeok Lee
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 영미문학연구회 15.12.2003
• Subjects: cultural hybridity; Ireland of the Mind; Irish Studies; political aesthetic; postcolonial epistemology; Seamus Heaney

This paper examines the early writings of Seamus Heaney from a postcolonial perspective, particularly appropriating Homi Bhabha`s concept of cultural hybridity. Heaney`s poetic quest is characterized as "being in between." In the divided world of Northern Ireland whose root cause traces ba...