Field Day and the translation of Irish identities
Subtitle: performing contradictions
By: Aidan O'Malley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780230229693
Subjects: History and criticism; Theater; English drama; Translating and interpreting; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Translations into English; Drama; Group identity in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Field Day Theatre Company; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; Irish authors; History
Description: "This book examines Field Day Theatre'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"--
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Translating the Irish past; title: Translation, home and hospitality; title: Loyal translations : the spirit and the letter; title: Reciprocation and resolution; title: - Masks : men and history; title: Epilogue.