This book uncovers a new genre of 'post-Agreement literature',
consisting of a body of texts - fiction, poetry and drama - by Northern
Irish writers who grew up during the Troubles but published their work
in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. In an attempt to
demarcate the literary-aesthetic parameters of the genre, the book
proposes a selective revision of postcolonial theories on 'liminality'
through a subset of concepts such as 'negative liminality', 'liminal
suspension' and 'liminal permanence.' These conceptual interventions, as
the readings demonstrate, help articulate how the Agreement's rhetorical
negation of the sectarian past and its aggressive neoliberal campaign
towards a 'progressive' future breed new forms of violence that produce
liminally suspended subject positions.