Walsh Fintan - Crossroads: Performance Studies And Irish Culture - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In the expansive and expanding field of Irish studies performance has typically featured as drama theatre dance and music. Yet the categories of Irish culture and Irishness are highly performative effected through a wide range of social practices cultural formations discursive utterances and in timely need of critical address. As social and political change continue to have enormous effects on Ireland and its diaspora it has become more important than ever to engage with performances in and of Irish culture. This new paperback edition of Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture examines Irish culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies. As the title of the book makes clear Brady and Walsh return to the evocative metaphor of crossroads to signal the intersection of disciplines. The roads mapped here are metaphorical and real multiple and mobile. Practices epistemologies temporalities geographies and identities splinter in their wake clearing the ground for the emergence of nuanced understandings of performance and cultural politics.
Title: Crossroads: Performance Studies And Irish Culture
Author(s): Walsh Fintan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9781137425713
Pages: 255 Pages, 9 Illustrations, Black And White; Xiv, 255 P. 9 Illus.
Publication Date: 8/27/2009
Category: British & Irish History