Second-Generation Transcultural Irishness: Susan Ryan’s The King of Lavender Square.

What is it about?

This chapter analyses Susan Ryan’s debut novel, The King of Lavender Square (2017), in order to show how second-generation Irish negotiate transcultural realities in contemporary Ireland. The analysis offered approaches Ryan’s representation of second-generation Irishness with the character of young Patrick Kimba, a black Irish who has to negotiate his transcultural identity as opposed to what has been traditionally regarded as the “Irish/White only”. This chapter proves that Ryan’s novel approaches transcultural Irishness understood as a synergy, an interaction, and an evolutionary process within the social, the political, the cultural and the identitarian macro and micro discourses of contemporary Ireland.

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Why is it important?

Susan Ryan's novel adds up to the debate of transcultural Ireland, particularly in her representation of second-generation migrants.

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