Description: This book explores the literary and cultural afterlives of Ireland's most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial son: Roger Casement. Drawing upon a transnational selection of modern and contemporary texts, alongside significant archival research, this book positions Casement as a vital and fascinating figure in the compromised and contradictory terrain of Anglo-Irish history.
Brief description: Alison Garden is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Queen's University Belfast. She was formerly an Irish Research Council Fellow and Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.
Review Quotes:
'Garden embraces all that is "complex, contradictory and messy" in Casement's legacy: unrestricted by text or canon, she ... demonstrates how the "queer archival trail" of Roger Casement continues to disturb neat narratives of history.'
Galen D. Bunting, Modernism/Modernity