书目名称 | Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama | 副标题 | Acting the Man | 编辑 | Cormac O‘Brien | 视频video | | 概述 | Yields new interpretations of canonical Irish plays.Analyses how the Northern Irish conflict has impacted theatrical and social performances of Irish manhood.Creates a means of analysing contemporary | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book charts the journey, in terms of both stasis and change, that masculinities and manhood have made in Irish drama, and by extension in the broader culture and society, from the 1960s to the present. Examining a diverse corpus of drama and theatre events, both mainstream and on the fringe, this study critically elaborates a seismic shift in Irish masculinities. This book argues, then, that Irish manhood has shifted from embodying and enacting post-colonial concerns of nationalism and national identity, to performing models of masculinity that are driven and moulded by the political and cultural practices of neoliberal capitalism. .Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama. charts this shift through chapters on performing masculinity in plays set in both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, and through several chapters that focus on Women’s and Queer drama. It thus takes its readers on a journey: a journey that begins with an overtly patriarchal, nationalist manhood that often made direct comment on the state of the nation, and ultimately arrives at several arguably regressive forms of globalised masculinity, which are couched in misaligned notions of individ | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | Masculinity; Irish theatre; Biopolitics; Queer; Marxism; Semiotics; Spectatorship; Northern Ireland; Brian F | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84075-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-84077-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-84075-4 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 |
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