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Ilha do Desterro 2010
"Poor Banished Children of Eve": Tom Murphy and the syntax of historyKeywords: Theatre , Ireland , Nationalism , Class , Gender , Identity Abstract: 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.
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