Negra The Irish in Us

Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8784-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

A colleciton that looks at how Irishness has become a discursive commodity within popular culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Negra, Diane

Weitere Mitwirkende

Eagan, Catherine M.

Griffin, Sean

Casey, Natasha

Pramaggiore, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture / Diane Negra 1

“Still ‘Black’ and ‘Proud’”: Irish America and the Racial Politics of Hibernophilia / Catherine M. Eagan 20

The Wearing of the Green: Performing Irishness in the Fox Wartime Musical / Sean Griffin 64

“The Best Kept Secret in Retail”: Selling Irishness in Contemporary America / Natasha Casey 84

“Papa Don’t Preach”: Pregnancy and Performance in Contemporary Irish Cinema / Maria Pramaggiore 110

rish Roots: Genealogy and the Performance of Irishness / Stephanie Rains 130

Ray Charles on Hyndford Street: Van Morrison’s Caledonian Soul / Lauren Onkey 161

Garth Brooks in Ireland, or, Play That Country Music, Whiteboys / Mary McGlynn 196

“Does the Rug Match the Carpet?”: Race, Gender, and the Redheaded Woman / Amanda Third 220

Dead, White, and Male: Irishness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel / Gerardine Meaney 254

“A Bit of Traveller in Everybody”: Traveller Identities in Irish and American Culture / Maeve Connolly 282

Feeling Éire(y): On Irish-Caribbean Popular Culture / Michael Malouf 318

Irishness, Innocence, and American Identity Politics before and after September 11 / Diane Negra 354

Contributors 373

Index 377

Über Autor(innen)

Diane Negra is Senior Lecturer in the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom and a coeditor (with Jennifer M. Bean) of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, also published by Duke University Press.