"Poor Banished Children of Eve": Tom Murphy and the syntax of history

Ilha do Desterro

Paul Murphy¹ 

[1] Queen's University Belfast;

关键词: theatre;    ireland;    nationalism;    class;    gender;    identity;   

DOI  :  10.5007/2175-8026.2010n58p217

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This essay engages with the work of playwright Tom Murphy and suggests that Murphy synthesizes the dialectic between past and present by representing history as a process of story-telling, where hegemonic Catholic bourgeois nationalist history is contradicted by repressed discourses of class and gender.   The aim is to move beyond a reading of Irish theatre grounded in identitarian paradigms of nation and nationalism, towards an engagement with ethical issues of class and gender subordination which are as much a part of Irish cultural politics as the nation is or ever was.

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