<b>"Poor Banished Children of Eve": Tom Murphy and the syntax of history</b><br>

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  • Paul Murphy Queen's University Belfast

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2010n58p217

Resumo

This essay engages with the work of playwright Tom Murphy and suggests that Murphy synthesizes the dialectic between past and present by representing history as a process of story-telling, where hegemonic Catholic bourgeois nationalist history is contradicted by repressed discourses of class and gender.   The aim is to move beyond a reading of Irish theatre grounded in identitarian paradigms of nation and nationalism, towards an engagement with ethical issues of class and gender subordination which are as much a part of Irish cultural politics as the nation is or ever was.

Biografia do Autor

Paul Murphy, Queen's University Belfast

Paul Murphy is Lecturer in Drama Studies at Queen's University Belfast, and President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research. His publications include Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 (Palgrave Macmillan) and (with Melissa Sihra) The Dreaming Body: Contemporary Irish Theatre (Colin Smythe; Oxford University Press).

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Publicado

2010-01-01

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n. 58 (2010)

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Copyright (c) 2010 Paul Murphy

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