{"id":1583,"date":"2018-01-26T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2018-02-19T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:21:42","slug":"the-irish-writer-in-little-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/01\/26\/the-irish-writer-in-little-england\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irish Writer in &#8216;Little England&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pageWrapper\" class=\"chronosTemplate\">\n<div id=\"contentWrapper\">\n<div id=\"contentContainer\">\n<div id=\"contentRight\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"tab-snippet\">\n<div class=\"tab-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/01\/irishpassport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1584 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/01\/irishpassport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>How have Irish writers, dramatists, poets, artists, academics, thinkers, activists, performers, and other cultural producers worked to undermine, or indeed, support, an impoverished cultural imaginary of \u2018Little England\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>According to Christopher Bryant, \u2018Little England\u2019 denotes \u00a0\u2018&#8230; \u201ca present-home\u201d national community defined by a sense of place\u2019. If \u2018Little England\u2019 is defined by its own sense of place, where might this place be? How have Irish writers inhabited it? What role, if any, have shifting Irish identities and cultural traditions played in defining \u2018Little England\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Please note that this symposium will now be held on Saturday 24 February on the Canterbury Campus, Cornwallis East, Seminar Room 1.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, including the call for papers, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/conferences\/theirishwriter\/\">School of English conference page.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How have Irish writers, dramatists, poets, artists, academics, thinkers, activists, performers, and other cultural producers worked to undermine, or indeed, support, an impoverished cultural imaginary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/01\/26\/the-irish-writer-in-little-england\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143219,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}