The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent changes in Irish society, the arts industry and modes of critical inquiry. This book broaches this task by considering Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -Introduction: Performance Studies and Irish Culture; F.Walsh with S.Brady - PART I: TRADITION, RITUAL AND PLAY - Performing Ireland: A Performative Approach to the Study of Irish Culture; J.Santino - Performing Tradition; B.Sweeney -Sporting 'Irish' Identities: Performance and the Gaelic Games; S.Brady - 'It's beyond Candide it's E vejk': Wise Foolery in the Work of Jack Lynch, Storyteller; M.Wilson - Traditional Irish Music in the 21st Century: Networks, Technology, and the Negotiation of Authenticity; S.Spencer - PART II: PLACE, LANDSCAPE AND COMMEMORATION - 'Tapping Secrecies of Stone': Irish Roads as Performances of Movement, Measurement, and Memory; J.Morrison - Commemoration and the Performance of Irish Famine Memory; E.M.FitzGerald - Embodying the Past for the Tourist Gaze: Performing History and Commemorations of Violence at Free Derry Corner; M.Spangler - St Patrick's Purgatory and the Performance of Pilgrimage;D.Cregan - PART III: POLITICAL PERFORMANCES - Word, Voice, Book, and Act: De Valera and the Oath; A.Pulju - Between the Living and the Dead: Performative 'in-betweens' in the Work of Alastair MacLennan; C.Szabó - The Bio-politics of Performing Irish-ness; M.Causey - PART IV: GENDER, FEMINISM, AND QUEER PERFORMANCE - Ghosting Bridgie Cleary: Tom Mac Intyre and Staging this Woman's Death;C.McIvor - Challenging Patriarchal Imagery: Amanda Coogan's Performance Art; G.C.Novati - Homelysexuality and the 'Beauty' Pageant; F.Walsh - PART V: DIASPORA, MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION - Taking Northern Irish Identity on the Road: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival of 2007; E.Moore Quinn - Who's Laughing at What?: Currents of Humour in African-Irish Theatre; E.Weitz - Parading Multicultural Ireland: Identity Politics and National Agendas in the 2007 St Patrick's Festival; H.Maples - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21998-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 27/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés