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| Titre : | The Performance of Masculinity and Nationalism : Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock (1998) |
| Auteurs : | David WATERMAN, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 23 n 2 1998) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 53-69 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | This article discusses the performance of nationalism, according to society's accepted definition of masculinity, in Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock. These plays created disturbances among contemporary audiences (and continue to disturb) because O'Casey presents resistance in the form of nationalism as misguided, a shallow performance of resistance by childish men and drunkards, which ultimately worsens the situation because it does not take into account Ireland's colonial past. By ignoring the influence of colonialism on Irish history, the patriots become unwitting pawns of the ideologues by accepting the rhetoric of nationalist myth and abstraction |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Mention de responsabilité : | David Waterman |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
