The Politics of Irish Memory [electronic resource] : Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture /
Pine, E.author.
Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Past Traumas: Representing Institutional Abuse; 2 The Remembered Self: Irish Memoir, Past and Present Selves; 3 The Exiled Past: The Return of the Irish Emigrant; 4 Embodied Memory: Performing the 1980-1 Hunger Strikes; 5 In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War; 6 Haunted Pasts: Exorcising the Ghosts of Irish Culture; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
Theater-History.
Great Britain-History.
Intellectual life-History.
Cultural studies.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Theatre History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Intellectual Studies.
Cultural Studies.