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Eccentric Nation
Stephen Rohs
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Description for Eccentric Nation
Hardback. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 517.
Eccentric Nation examines four performance events in nineteenth-century New York City in which Irish cultural nationalism was constructed and reinforced by musicians, actors, playwrights, speakers, parades, and athletes, and disseminated among diverse crowds that included both Irish and Anglo-Americans. Their contemporaries and more recent analysts alike have often taken these performance conventions as representations of a common Irish voice or a monolithic national identity. Close examination reveals a much more conflicted Irish community. What appeared as shared symbolism was contested among both Irish and Anglo-Americans. Masculine nationalist heroes, visions of a romanticized peasant class, evocations of collective memories, and the ... Read more
Eccentric Nation examines four performance events in nineteenth-century New York City in which Irish cultural nationalism was constructed and reinforced by musicians, actors, playwrights, speakers, parades, and athletes, and disseminated among diverse crowds that included both Irish and Anglo-Americans. Their contemporaries and more recent analysts alike have often taken these performance conventions as representations of a common Irish voice or a monolithic national identity. Close examination reveals a much more conflicted Irish community. What appeared as shared symbolism was contested among both Irish and Anglo-Americans. Masculine nationalist heroes, visions of a romanticized peasant class, evocations of collective memories, and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473612
SKU
V9781611473612
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About Stephen Rohs
Stephen Rohs is associate professor of cultural studies at Michigan State University.
Reviews for Eccentric Nation
Eccentric Nation, built on works familiar to members of New York Irish History Roundtable, will itself become an essential reference and an encouraging example of history with a higher than average toleration for the complexity in its subject.
New York Irish History
New York Irish History