With this study Shahriyar Mansouri examines the ways in which the critical structure of modern Irish Bildungsroman deconstructs and re-examines residues of past trauma present in the nations unfortunate engagement with the postcolonial Irish States politics of formation. The result, Mansouri argues, is a resistant and radical form which introduces non-conformist, post-Joycean protagonists, whose antithetical perception of history and socio-cultural norms contradicts the conservative efforts of the post-independence Irish State. To examine such a resistant critical structure, Mansouri focuses...