Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities - Performing Contradictions

Informationen zum Autor AIDAN O'MALLEY Received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has held appointments at New York University, University College Dublin, the University of Limerick and is currently teaching at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Klappentext This book examines Field Day's cultural intervention into the Northern Irish 'Troubles' through individual readings of the fourteen plays produced by the enterprise. It argues that at the heart of this project were performances, in a variety of different forms and registers, of an ethics of translation that disrupted notions of Irish identity. Zusammenfassung This book examines Field Day's cultural intervention into the Northern Irish 'Troubles' through individual readings of the fourteen plays produced by the enterprise. It argues that at the heart of this project were performances! in a variety of different forms and registers! of an ethics of translation that disrupted notions of Irish identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

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• Authors: &apos, Aidan malley, O MALLEY AIDAN, O&apos, A O'Malley, A. O'Malley, Aidan O'Malley, Aidan O''malley
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2011
• EAN: 9780230229693
• ISBN: 978-0-230-22969-3
• No. of pages: 257
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Theater, B, Literature, Environment, The environment, Theatre Studies, Film History, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Literature, general, Theatre and Performance Arts, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, Film history, theory & criticism, drama;identity;theatre