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Author Alcobia-Murphy, Shane

Title Governing the tongue in Northern Ireland : the place of art/the art of place / by Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 159 pages)
Contents "Not forgotten or passed over at the proper time" : the representation of violent events in contemporary culture -- The government of the tongue : art and conflict in Northern Ireland -- "The free state of image and allusion" : the intersection of poetry and politics -- "They look and look and cannot find you" : Northern Irish historiographic metafiction -- Unfinished narratives : artistic representations of Bloody Sunday -- 'Obsolete and tomb-led as the Boyne' : the representation of place in Northern Irish literature and visual art -- The city is a map of the city : representations of Belfast's narrow ground -- Seamus Heaney and Brien Friel : setting the island story straight? -- Safe house : authenticity, nostalgia and the Irish house
Summary Examines how the creation of art in a time of violence brings about an anxiety in the Northern Irish artist regarding his or her artistic role, and how it calls into question the ability to represent events. These essays explore the place of art - its role and location - in the work of key Northern Irish writers and visual artists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Arts -- Northern Ireland -- 20th century
Art -- Political aspects -- Northern Ireland
Art -- Political aspects
Arts
Northern Ireland
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006404572
ISBN 1282029657
9781282029651
9786612029653
661202965X
1443802220
9781443802222