Irish culture and colonial modernity, 1800-2000 : the transformation of oral space / David Lloyd.
"From the Famine to political hunger strikes, from telling tales in the pub to Beckett's tortured utterances, the performance of Irish identity has always been deeply connected to the oral. Exploring how colonial modernity transformed the spaces that sustained Ireland's oral culture,...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
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| Summary: | "From the Famine to political hunger strikes, from telling tales in the pub to Beckett's tortured utterances, the performance of Irish identity has always been deeply connected to the oral. Exploring how colonial modernity transformed the spaces that sustained Ireland's oral culture, this book explains why Irish culture has been both so creative and so resistant to modernization. David Lloyd brings together manifestations of oral culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how the survival of orality was central both to resistance against colonial rule and to Ireland's modern definition as a postcolonial culture. Specific to Ireland as these histories are, they resonate with postcolonial cultures globally. This study is an important and provocative new interpretation of Irish national culture and how it came into being"-- Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139145268 1139145266 9781139028523 1139028529 9781139137935 113913793X 1283316773 9781283316774 9786613316776 6613316776 1139141945 9781139141949 9781139141062 1139141066 |
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