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| Titre : | Paul Durcan's Ekphrasis : The Political Aesthetics of Hybridity (2014) |
| Auteurs : | Yeonmin KIM, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 44 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2014) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 381-397 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | An ekphrasis refers to a poem in which works of visual art serve as the basis for poetic creation. In discussing two collections of ekphrases, "Crazy About Women" and "Give Me Your Hand", this essay illuminates the manner in which Durcan politically appropriates hybridity in terms of the temporal and the spatial, the public and the private, and the real and the surreal. By reinterpreting and rearranging the figures and events in a specific personal or Irish situation, Durcan undermines a chronologically recognized public history, which has long defined the politics of Irish identity. In addition, his attempt to find a way out of Irish identity politics culminates in Durcanesque metamorphosis. By becoming woman, animal, art, or the imperceptible, Durcan's speakers cast doubt on any single unified human identity and can be read as radical experiments to search for alternatives to the identities typically associated with both hypermasculine Irish culture and totalitarian politics. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Lieu de publication : | Edimbourg |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
