Using the work of René Girard and Jacques Lacan, Mahon develops a new theoretical framework for reading the dynamic interplay of textuality, sexuality, violence, politics, reciprocity and the body in key literary and cinematic texts that engage with the period of political and social unrest in Northern Irelandknown as the 'Troubles' (1968-1998). INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction - Blood, Shit and Tears: The Textual Reinscription of Sacrifice, Ritual and Victimhood in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal - The Law's Terrifying Double: 'Legal Panic' in Glenn Patterson's That Which Was - Family Matters: Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father and Terry George's Some Mother's Son - States of Desire in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto - 'Something like God': Shit, Orifices, and Bodily Signifiers in Louise Dean's This Human Season - Conclusion: Contaminated Christs - Notes - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57643-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés