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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456005703321

Autore

Harris Susan C (Susan Cannon), <1969->

Titolo

Gender and modern Irish drama [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Cannon Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-07200-5

9786612072000

9780253109376

0-253-10973-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

Drama and performance studies ; ; v. 14

Disciplina

822/.91209352042/09417

Soggetti

English drama - Irish authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - Ireland - History - 20th century

Feminism and literature - Ireland - History - 20th century

English drama - 20th century - History and criticism

Human body in literature

Sex role in literature

Women in literature

Electronic books.

Ireland In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Bodies and Blood 1 -- 1. Body and Soul: Yeats, the Famine, and the Two Cathleens 28 -- 2. Under Siege: Blood, Borders, and the Body Politic 69 -- 3. Excess of Love: Padraig Pearse and the Erotics of Sacrifice 123 -- 4. The Body of Truth: Sensationalism and Sacrifice in Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy 167 -- 5. Misbirth of a Nation: Yeats and the Irish Free State 227.

Sommario/riassunto

Gender and Modern Irish Drama argues that the representations of                sacrificial violence central to the work of the Abbey playwrights are intimately                linked with constructions of gender and sexuality. Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond                an examination of the relationship between Irish national drama and Irish                nationalist



politics to the larger question of the way national identity and gender                identity are constructed through each other. Radically redefining the context in                which the Abbey plays were performed, H