Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity from the No - rth of Ireland, 1969-1994

Informationen zum Autor BERNARD MCKENNA is Assistant Professor at University of Delaware. His previous books include James Joyce's Ulysses: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 2002). Klappentext The North of Ireland has long been plagued by violent conflict, and dramatic works from that region often reflect the ongoing social turmoil. This book uses trauma theory to analyze dramatic productions from the North of Ireland. After a person is initially exposed to violence, their sense of identity is ruptured. In an effort to shield themselves from trauma, victims then construct identities, but those identities do not fully integrate traumatic experiences. Ultimately, some individuals successfully assimilate their exposure to traumatic events. This book examines how dramatic productions reflect the rupture in the factors that inform identity, and the more successful attempts to refashion a conception of self in relation to community, continuity, and communion with the mythic. This volume looks not only at the literary and psychological structure of the plays but also their theatrical components. The book discusses how each play functions as drama, as staged spectacle and representation, and as performance, focusing on the audience's reaction to particular scenes. Each work was either written by a writer from the North of Ireland or was staged in the North, and all the plays discussed either directly or indirectly confront issues of sectarian conflict. Attention is given to Stewart Parker, John Wilson Haire, Brian Friel, Martin Lynch, Kenneth Branagh, Seamus Heaney, Anne Devlin, Graham Reid, and others. Zusammenfassung The North of Ireland has long been plagued by violent conflict! and dramatic works from that region often reflect the ongoing social turmoil. Each work was either written by a writer from the North of Ireland or was staged in the North! and all the plays discussed either directly or indirectly confront issues of sectarian conflict. Inhaltsverzeichnis Drama & The Troubles "Fire in the North, Sun in the South" "Briseadh nat Seanghathaimh": Rupture of Identity Ubertratung: The Mask of Protection/Projection Carnival and the Reconstruction of Identity Cocead: The Fifth Province Bibliography ...

Product details

• Authors: Bernard McKenna, McKenna Bernard
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2003
• EAN: 9780313320293
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32029-3
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 243 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Contributions in Drama & Theatre Studies; Contributions in Drama and The; Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: specific events & topics, English, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Northern Ireland, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History: specific events and topics, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, The Arts: Drama