Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture

by Balzano, Wanda; Mulhall, Anne; Sullivan, Moynagh

• ISBN13: 9780230008700
• ISBN10: 0230008704
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This groundbreaking collection reframes how popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular culture can be understood. The essays examine in unique ways, local and global Irishness, focusing on current versions of traditional culture and new modes of representation, how issues such as gender, sexuality, and race shape contemporary postmodernism in Ireland. From Fanfic to Orange Parades, from Boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary, from Celebrity Tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association, the essays address new territories.

Author Biography

WANDA BALZANO is Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Wake Forest University, USA. She has published essays on Beckett, Joyce, Irish women's writing in theory, religion, art, and film, and she has co-edited the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms'.

ANNE MULHALL is AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Women in Irish Culture Project, based at University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Her research focuses on critical theory, particularly feminist and queer theory, popular culture, women's writing in Ireland, and seventeenth-century literature and culture.

MOYNAGH SULLIVAN is Lecturer in the Department of English, National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth, Republic of Ireland. She has published a number of articles on gender, women's writing and Irish studies, and is co-editor of the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms', Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Race

Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in The Wire and Rescue Me

Reading and Writing Race in Ireland

Marching, Minstrelsy, Masquerade: Parading White Loyalist Masculinity as 'Blackness'

'Is it for the Glamour?': Masculinity, Nationhood and Amateurism in Contemporary Projections of the Gaelic Athletic Association

Space

'Our Nuns are not a Nation': Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film

Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex, No Money, No Name

Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland

Tracking the Luas between the Human and the Inhuman

Diaspora

Cinematic Constructions of Irish Musical Ethnicity

St Patrick's Day Expulsions: Race and Homophobia in New York's Parade

Fantasy, Celebrity and 'Family Values' in High-end and Special Event Tourism in Ireland

A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men and Witty Women

Aporia

'Let's Get Killed': Culture and Peace in Northern Ireland

Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and Mothering the Nation

Quare Theory

Camping up the Emerald Aisle: 'Queerness' in Irish Popular Culture

Index

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