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The Theatre of Deirdre Kinahan

Herausgegeben: Fitzpatrick, Lisa; Kurdi, Maria

Beschreibung

Over the last twenty years Deirdre Kinahan has emerged as a significant and original female voice in Irish theatre, with her plays produced in Ireland, the UK, the USA and across mainland Europe. Her work explores issues of personal and communal identity, bringing forward the difficulties that arise for individuals when accepted narratives of identity diverge from contemporary experience. In this collection of ten original essays, and an interview with the playwright, the authors address the ways in which Kinahan's plays interrogate and seek to renegotiate value systems of family, class, ethnicity, age and gender in the 21st century neoliberal, secular state, with an emphasis on experimental forms and the renewal of the genre of the family play. Theoretical frameworks rely on feminism, intersectionality, genre studies, and age studies, among other approaches, by authors from Ireland, the UK, Hungary, the USA, Nigeria, Canada and Taiwan.

Autor

Lisa Fitzpatrick is Senior Lecturer in Drama at University of Ulster in Derry. Her work is concerned with violence, post-conflict theatre and gender, and she is the author of Rape on the Contemporary Stage (2017), as well as edited collections on Performing Violence in Contemporary Ireland (2010) and Performing Feminisms in Contemporary Ireland (2013). Her current work explores gender-based violence in conflict and post-conflict societies and involves a collaboration with Kabosh Theatre Company, Belfast. She is co-convenor of the Feminist Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research, as well as a founding member of the Irish Society for Theatre Studies. Mária Kurdi is Professor Emerita in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Her research focuses on modern Irish literature, English-speaking drama and comparative studies. She has published seven books and edited or co-edited several essay collections. Her own books include Representations of Gender and Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Drama by Women (Edwin Mellen, 2010), Approaches to Irish Theatre through a Hungarian¿s Lens (University of Pécs, 2018) and a monograph on J. M. Synge in Hungarian (Pécs: Kronosz kiadó, 2021). Her edited volumes include Literary and Cultural Relations: Ireland, Hungary, and Central and Eastern Europe and Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (co-edited with Miriam Haughton), which Carysfort Press published in 2009 and 2015, respectively. Mária Kurdi has numerous articles in English and Hungarian journals as well as essay collections. In 2020 she edited a block of essays about aging and ageism in literature and theatre for the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, which will be part of a book on the subject she is editing for HJEAS Books, New Series, to be published in 2022.

Produktdetails

• Carysfort Press Ltd. 1000
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 79626
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9781800796263
• ISBN-10: 1800796269
• Artikelnr.: 63384883

Rezensionen

«Despite the international acclaim and success of her plays, little commentary on Deirdre Kinahan appears in the existing scholarship. This collection (essays and an interview with Kinahan) brings together well-established scholars as well as fresh voices whose analyses provide a timely as well as long overdue critical introduction to Kinahan. It is most certainly an important book in the field of contemporary Irish theatre studies.» (Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Professor Emerita, University of Missouri-Kansas City)

«This is an impressive collection of essays and one which is timely as Deirdre Kinahan's status as a playwright both in Ireland and internationally is now well recognised. Collectively the essays make a very good case for an edited collection on Kinahan's work. There is a good mix of scholars and scholarships and each essay deserves its place in the collection. An interview between Bisi Adigun and Deirdre Kinahan provides an ending which gives space for the author's own voice.» (Brian Singleton, Professor, Trinity College Dublin)