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Eccentric Nation - Irish Performance in Nineteeth-Century New York City (Hardcover)
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Eccentric Nation - Irish Performance in Nineteeth-Century New York City (Hardcover)
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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 repetition of performance traditions all served to reinforce
the idea of a single community bound together. Those symbols often
gave rise to diverse meanings that were circulated in the urban
populace. Each chapter examines the staging of these four events
that produced dissension in the Irish community, providing insight
into the ways that a nation is imagined in different ways by a
broad array of people who have a stake in its existence, even if
they often disagree about its core identity.
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