%0 Journal Article
%T "Poor Banished Children of Eve": Tom Murphy and the syntax of history
%A Paul Murphy
%J Ilha do Desterro
%D 2010
%I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
%X This essay engages with the work of playwright Tom Murphy and suggests that Murphy synthesizes the dialectic between past and present by representing history as a process of story-telling, where hegemonic Catholic bourgeois nationalist history is contradicted by repressed discourses of class and gender.   The aim is to move beyond a reading of Irish theatre grounded in identitarian paradigms of nation and nationalism, towards an engagement with ethical issues of class and gender subordination which are as much a part of Irish cultural politics as the nation is or ever was.
%K Theatre
%K Ireland
%K Nationalism
%K Class
%K Gender
%K Identity
%U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/16427