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UNINA9910791917303321 |
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Autore |
Ó hAodha Mícheál |
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Titolo |
'Insubordinate Irish' [[electronic resource] ] : travellers in the text / / Micheál Ó hAodha |
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Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-84779-783-0 |
1-78170-243-8 |
1-84779-407-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) |
Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) - Ireland - Social life and customs |
Irland |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographic references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Irish travellers and the nineteenth century "others" -- The traveller colonised -- Irish travellers and the Bardic tradition -- Theoretical perspectives and the Irish context -- Mapping "difference": Irish travellers and the questionaire -- Travellers as countercultural -- Travellers in the Irish imaginary: contested terrains -- Anti-traveller prejudice: the narrative within the Irish imaginary -- The counter-tradition and symbolic inversion -- The dichotomy of self and other: some considerations. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travelers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. A particular focus of the book is on the exploration of the Traveler as "Other," an "Other" who is perceived as both inside and outside Ireland's collective ideation. Frequently constructed as a group whose cultural tenets are in a dichotomous opposition to that of the "settled" community, this book demonstrates the ambivalence and complexity of the Irish Traveler "Other" in the context of a European postcolonial country. Not only has the construction and representation of Travelers always been less stable and "fixed" than previously supposed, these |
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