Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity 1800–2000

The Transformation of Oral Space

By:

David Lloyd

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Hardback

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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.

Author Biography:

David Lloyd is Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Release date Australia

September 22nd, 2011

Author

David Lloyd

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

5 Halftones, black and white

Pages

298

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9781107008977

Product ID

10397922

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