Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing Contradictions
| dc.contributor.author | O'MALLEY, Aidan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-31T10:35:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-05-31T10:35:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the 1980s, Field Day brought together some of the most important names in Irish artistic life—Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, David Hammond and Thomas Kilroy—to articulate a cultural intervention into the deadly stalemate of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’. At the heart of the enterprise was an annual theatre tour around the island of Ireland that visited cities and small villages, playing in theatres and community venues. These plays did not tackle the ‘Troubles’ directly, but brought their audiences to places such as pre-Famine Ireland, the world of Greek tragedy, pre-Revolutionary Russian provinces and apartheid South Africa. Informed by poststructuralist thinking and archival materials, this book argues that the political and postcolonial salience of these dramas lies in the ways in which they foregrounded acts of cultural translation in order to disrupt disabling constructions of Irish identity that had contributed to engendering the ‘Troubles’. | en |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction. In Other Words: Locating a Touring Theatre Company Translating the Irish Past Translation, Home and Hospitality Loyal Translations: The Spirit and the Letter Reciprocation and Resolution Masks: Men and History Epilogue: Afterlives Key Texts Field Day Texts Index | en |
| dc.description.version | Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2004 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780230229693 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/17654 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | en |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5923 | en |
| dc.title | Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing Contradictions | en |
| dc.type | Book | en |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
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