Transformations in Irish Culture (Critical Conditions) - Softcover

Gibbons, Luke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268018936 ISBN 13: 9780268018931

Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 1996

Synopsis

From a variety of perspectives, the essays explore the complex intersections between culture and politics, nation and state, periphery and centre, and 'high' and 'popular' culture in Irish life. Cultural representations are shown not as simply reflecting, but actively helping to constitute and transform social experience. As a consequence, national identity is not a fixed entity but must be understood in terms of specific cultural practices, the multiple narratives and symbolic forms through which we make sense of our lives. The author argues that this requires a rethinking of key concepts of tradition and modernity, race, gender, and class as they bear on an understanding of contemporary Ireland. The aim throughout is to work towards non-exclusivist and open-ended forms of identity which allow a critical engagement with both past and present, and open up new possibilities for the future.

About this title

About the Author:

Luke Gibbons lectures in the School of Commications at Dublin City University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0268018936
• ISBN 13: 9780268018931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214