Graduate Student, English, Drama and Film
GREP Doctoral Scholar in Gender, Identity, and Cultural Change
Humanities Institue of Ireland
Thesis Title: Acting the Man: Discourses of Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Drama and Theatre
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Dr Emilie Pine UCD
Prof Brian Singleton TCD |
About
My thesis argues, primarily, for an epistemic shift in the ways in which masculinities are understood in Irish socio-cultural and political apparatus during the time-frame of the title. Authentic Irish manhood has long been the concern of several self-appointed vanguards, each one quite provocatively promoting its own version of what constitutes “an Irishman". Too often, Irish male identity is based on various iconic, yet invented, models of masculinity. This thesis seeks to uncover, as revealed through Irish drama and theatre, the lived discourses, the social dynamics and political movements, the very zeitgeists that have engendered such models of Irish masculinity, both harmful and progressive. Drawing on the body of scholarship that has seen Irish drama extensively critiqued as a Mirror up to Nation in terms of politics, culture, history and social theory, my thesis further broadens this landscape by reading the drama of the nation as a Mirror up to Masculinity.
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