Crossroads
Subtitle: performance studies and Irish culture
By: edited by Sara Brady and Fintan Walsh
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hanpshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780230219984
Description: This book is a wide-ranging critical analysis of cultural performance in Ireland, placing it within the interdisciplinary field of Performance Studies for the first time. These timely and original essays offer a sustained critique of diverse modes of Irishness and Irish culture as performative.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: performance studies and Irish culture  -- Fintan Walsh with Sara Brady; title: Tradition, ritual, and play.; title: Performing Ireland :; title: a performative approach to the study of Irish culture : -- Jack Santino ;; title: Performing tradition  -- Bernadette Sweeney ;; title: Sporting 'Irish' identities :; title: performance and the Gaelic games  -- Sara Brady ;; title: It's beyond Candide-it's s̆vejk :; title: wise foolery in the work of Jack Lynch, storyteller  -- Mike Wilson ;; title: Traditional Irish music in the twenty-first century :; title: networks, technology, and the negotiation of authenticity  -- Scott Spencer; title: Place, landscape, and commemoration.; title: Tapping secrecies of stone :; title: Irish roads as performances of movement, measurement, and memory : -- J'aime Morrison ;; title: Commenoration and the performance of Irish Famine memory  -- Emily Mark FitzGerald ;; title: Performing 'the Troubles' :; title: murals and the spectacle of commemorations of violence at Free Derry Corner  -- Matthew Spangler ;; title: St. Patrick's purgatory and the performance of pilgrimage  -- David Cregan; title: Political performances.; title: De Valera performs the oath :; title: word, voice, book, and act  -- Ame Puljiu ;; title: Between the living and the dead :; title: performative 'in-betweens' in the work of Alastair MacLennan  -- Carmen Szabó ;; title: Jus soli/jus sanguinis :; title: the biopolitics of performing Irishness  -- Matthew Causey; title: Gender, feminism, and queer performance.; title: Ghosting Bridgie Cleary :; title: Tom Mac Intyre and staging this woman's death  -- Charlotte McIvor ;; title: Challenging patriarchal imagery :; title: Amanda Coogan's performance art  -- Gabriella Calchi Novati ;; title: Homelysexuality and the 'beauty' pageant  -- Fintan Walsh; title: Diaspora, Migration, and globalization.; title: Taking Northern Irish identity on the road :; title: the Smithsonian Folklife Festival of 2007  -- E. Moore Quinn ;; title: Who's laughing now :; title: Comic currents for a new Irish audience  -- Eric Weitz ;; title: Parading multicultural Ireland :; title: identity politics and national agendas in the 2007 St. Patrick's Festival -- Holly Maples.