Identity Parades [electronic resource] : Northern Irish Culture and Dissident Subjects
Kirkland, Richard.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2002.
Identity Parades investigates of the role and importance of identity politics in modern Northern Irish society. Through a discussion of the kinds of texts that are often overlooked in analyses of culture in the North - such as film, biography, popular fiction and travel writing - the book charts the rise of identity as an increasingly popular way of defining individual and communal affiliation and considers its importance within Northern Irish political discourse as a whole. In this, Identity Parades identifies not only the possibilities but also the limits of 'identitarian' thinking and descr
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Cultural Identity and the Bourgeois Spectacle; 2: Identity, Image and Ideology in Film; 3: Violence, History and Bourgeois Fiction; 4: Three Forms of Camp; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Identity Parades investigates of the role and importance of identity politics in modern Northern Irish society. Through a discussion of the kinds of texts that are often overlooked in analyses of culture in the North - such as film, biography, popular fiction and travel writing - the book charts the rise of identity as an increasingly popular way of defining individual and communal affiliation and considers its importance within Northern Irish political discourse as a whole. In this, Identity Parades identifies not only the possibilities but also the limits of 'identitarian' thinking and descr
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dissenters.
Identity (Psychology).
Identity (Psychology)
Dissenters
Culture in motion pictures
Regions & Countries - Europe
History & Archaeology
Ireland