This groundbreaking collection is a timely intervention in the field of Irish Studies. The collection interrogates the conflicts and coincidences of the postcolonial, the postmodern and the global at a critical juncture in public and intellectual debates on the boundaries of 'Irishness', and at a time of unprecedented change in Irish cultural, social and economic life.
Irish postmodernisms and contemporary popular culture are often invoked in critical and public discussions as negative and corrosive spaces; in this collection, the contributors re-examine such valuations, making use of critical feminist, racial, queer, psychoanalytic and postcolonial frameworks in their analyses of Irish 'postmodernity' in the era of globalization. Considering local and global, 'traditional' and emergent 'Irishness' side by side, the collection redefines the ways in which popular culture in Ireland as well as Ireland in popular culture, are understood. From Fanfic to Orange Parades, from Boy bands to the Blessed Virgin Mary, from Celebrity Tourism to the Gaelic Athletics Association, the essays reconsider conventional notions of 'Irish identity', while exploring uncharted modes of Irish cultural production and establishing new directions for Irish Cultural Studies.
'The 'new Ireland' so often made the subject of political commentary and economic reports still wants for engaged critical commentary. Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture theorises Celtic Tiger Ireland in all its cultural complexity. A fresh, lively and challenging collection.' - Claire Connolly, Cardiff University
'This remarkable collection of essays robustly displays the exciting diversity of contemporary Irish studies' engagement with global popular culture. Interrogating gender, genre, race, space, and migration, this volume brilliantly reassesses the Irish academy's ideological and theoretical commitments.' - Professor Cheryl Herr, Department of English, University of Iowa
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: Race
Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in The Wire and Rescue Me; Gerardine Meaney
Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann; Maureen T.Reddy
Marching, Minstrelsy, Masquerade: Parading White Loyalist Masculinity as 'Blackness'; Suzanna Chan
'Is it for the Glamour?': Masculinity, Nationhood and Amateurism in Contemporary Projections of the Gaelic Athletic Association; Mike Cronin
PART II: Space
'Our Nuns are not a Nation': Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film; Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex, No Money, No Name; Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka
Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland; Kathryn Conrad
Tracking the Luas between the Human and the Inhuman; Wanda Balzano & Jefferson Holdridge
PART III: Diaspora
Cinematic Constructions of Irish Musical Ethnicity; Christopher Smith
St Patrick's Day Expulsions: Race and Homophobia in New York's Parade; Katherine O'Donnell
Fantasy, Celebrity and 'Family Values' in High-end and Special Event Tourism in Ireland; Diane Negra
A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men and Witty Women; Claire Bracken & Emma Radley
PART IV: Aporia
'Let's Get Killed': Culture and Peace in Northern Ireland; Colin Graham
Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and Mothering the Nation; Moynagh Sullivan
Quare Theory; Noreen Giffney
Camping up the Emerald Aisle: 'Queerness' in Irish Popular Culture; Anne Mulhall
Index
WANDA BALZANO is Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Wake Forest University, USA. She has published essays on Beckett, Joyce, Irish women's writing in theory, religion, art, and film, and she has co-edited the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms'.
ANNE MULHALL is AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Women in Irish Culture Project, based at University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Her research focuses on critical theory, particularly feminist and queer theory, popular culture, women's writing in Ireland, and seventeenth-century literature and culture.
MOYNAGH SULLIVAN is Lecturer in the Department of English, National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth, Republic of Ireland. She has published a number of articles on gender, women's writing and Irish studies, and is co-editor of the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms', Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland.
Description
This groundbreaking collection is a timely intervention in the field of Irish Studies. The collection interrogates the conflicts and coincidences of the postcolonial, the postmodern and the global at a critical juncture in public and intellectual debates on the boundaries of 'Irishness', and at a time of unprecedented change in Irish cultural, social and economic life.
Irish postmodernisms and contemporary popular culture are often invoked in critical and public discussions as negative and corrosive spaces; in this collection, the contributors re-examine such valuations, making use of critical feminist, racial, queer, psychoanalytic and postcolonial frameworks in their analyses of Irish 'postmodernity' in the era of globalization. Considering local and global, 'traditional' and emergent 'Irishness' side by side, the collection redefines the ways in which popular culture in Ireland as well as Ireland in popular culture, are understood. From Fanfic to Orange Parades, from Boy bands to the Blessed Virgin Mary, from Celebrity Tourism to the Gaelic Athletics Association, the essays reconsider conventional notions of 'Irish identity', while exploring uncharted modes of Irish cultural production and establishing new directions for Irish Cultural Studies.
Reviews
'The 'new Ireland' so often made the subject of political commentary and economic reports still wants for engaged critical commentary. Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture theorises Celtic Tiger Ireland in all its cultural complexity. A fresh, lively and challenging collection.' - Claire Connolly, Cardiff University
'This remarkable collection of essays robustly displays the exciting diversity of contemporary Irish studies' engagement with global popular culture. Interrogating gender, genre, race, space, and migration, this volume brilliantly reassesses the Irish academy's ideological and theoretical commitments.' - Professor Cheryl Herr, Department of English, University of Iowa
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: Race
Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in The Wire and Rescue Me; Gerardine Meaney
Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann; Maureen T.Reddy
Marching, Minstrelsy, Masquerade: Parading White Loyalist Masculinity as 'Blackness'; Suzanna Chan
'Is it for the Glamour?': Masculinity, Nationhood and Amateurism in Contemporary Projections of the Gaelic Athletic Association; Mike Cronin
PART II: Space
'Our Nuns are not a Nation': Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film; Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex, No Money, No Name; Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka
Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland; Kathryn Conrad
Tracking the Luas between the Human and the Inhuman; Wanda Balzano & Jefferson Holdridge
PART III: Diaspora
Cinematic Constructions of Irish Musical Ethnicity; Christopher Smith
St Patrick's Day Expulsions: Race and Homophobia in New York's Parade; Katherine O'Donnell
Fantasy, Celebrity and 'Family Values' in High-end and Special Event Tourism in Ireland; Diane Negra
A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men and Witty Women; Claire Bracken & Emma Radley
PART IV: Aporia
'Let's Get Killed': Culture and Peace in Northern Ireland; Colin Graham
Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and Mothering the Nation; Moynagh Sullivan
Quare Theory; Noreen Giffney
Camping up the Emerald Aisle: 'Queerness' in Irish Popular Culture; Anne Mulhall
Index
Authors
WANDA BALZANO is Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Wake Forest University, USA. She has published essays on Beckett, Joyce, Irish women's writing in theory, religion, art, and film, and she has co-edited the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms'.
ANNE MULHALL is AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Women in Irish Culture Project, based at University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Her research focuses on critical theory, particularly feminist and queer theory, popular culture, women's writing in Ireland, and seventeenth-century literature and culture.
MOYNAGH SULLIVAN is Lecturer in the Department of English, National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth, Republic of Ireland. She has published a number of articles on gender, women's writing and Irish studies, and is co-editor of the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms', Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland.
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