Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
ISBN:
9781847794079
Content:
This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination.
Content:
Intro -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Irish Travellers and the nineteenth century 'Others' -- 2. The Traveller colonised -- 3. Irish Travellers and the bardic tradition -- 4. Theoretical perspectives and the Irish context -- 5. Mapping 'difference': Irish Travellersand the Questionnaire -- 6. Travellers as countercultural -- 7. Narrative and the Irish imaginary: Contested terrains -- 8. Anti-Traveller prejudice: The narrative within the Irish imaginary -- 9. The counter-tradition and symbolic inversion -- 10. The dichotomy of Self and Other:Some considerations -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719083044
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780719083044
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1069719
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