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'Insubordinate Irish' : Travellers in the text /

This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travelers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. A particular focus of the book is on the exploration of the Traveler as "Other," an "Oth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ó hAodha, Mícheál, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Irish travellers and the nineteenth century "others"
  • The traveller colonised
  • Irish travellers and the Bardic tradition
  • Theoretical perspectives and the Irish context
  • Mapping "difference": Irish travellers and the questionaire
  • Travellers as countercultural
  • Travellers in the Irish imaginary: contested terrains
  • Anti-traveller prejudice: the narrative within the Irish imaginary
  • The counter-tradition and symbolic inversion
  • The dichotomy of self and other: some considerations.