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Article: Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist Writer. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
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- March 22, 2003
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John Brannigan, Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist Writer. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002. 187 pages. EUR 38.07 (hardback).
John Brannigan is a cultural historian whose central argument is that Behan's reputation has suffered from a conventional tendency to see him as a nationalist writer who betrayed both the cause and his own talent: 'that Behan was a Republican who deserted his political commitments for the attractions of literary fame in England; that he turned from cultural nationalism to cultural anomie; that he allowed his writings to become the vehicles of stage-Irish amusements for the metropolitan audiences of London's West End.' ...