Identity parades : Northern Irish culture and dissident subjects / Richard Kirkland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkland, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology)--Northern Ireland.

Identity (Psychology).

Dissenters--Northern Ireland.

Dissenters.

Culture in motion pictures.

Northern Ireland--Civilization.

Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland--In literature.

Northern Ireland--In motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Identity Parades investigates of the role and importance of identity politics in modern Northern Irish society. Through a discussion of the kinds of texts that are often overlooked in analyses of culture in the North - such as film, biography, popular fiction and travel writing - the book charts the rise of identity as an increasingly popular way of defining individual and communal affiliation and considers its importance within Northern Irish political discourse as a whole. In this, Identity Parades identifies not only the possibilities but also the limits of 'identitarian' thinking and describes the ways in which identity positions in the North can become troubled, fossilised and self-parodic.

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Cultural Identity and the Bourgeois Spectacle; 2: Identity, Image and Ideology in Film; 3: Violence, History and Bourgeois Fiction; 4: Three Forms of Camp; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

ISBN:

1-78138-676-5

1-84631-331-7

1-4175-6815-1

OCLC:

437241531