Identity Parades: Northern Irish Culture and Dissident Subjects - Hardcover

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 198 pages; Physical desc.: x, 198 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Identity (Psychology) --Northern Ireland --Culture in motion pictures --Dissenters --Northern Ireland --National characteristics, Irish --Northern Ireland --In literature. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-192) and index.English. Contents: Cultural identity and the bourgeois spectacle; identity, image and ideology in film; violence, history and bourgeois fiction; four forms of camp. Summary: "Identity Parades" investigates of the role and importance of identity politics in modern Northern Irish society. Through a discussion of the kinds of texts that are often overlooked in analyses of culture in the North such as film, biography, popular fiction and travel writing the book charts the rise of identity as an increasingly popular way of defining individual and communal affiliation and considers its importance within Northern Irish political discourse as a whole. In this, "Identity Parades" identifies not only the possibilities but also the limits of identitarian' thinking and describes the ways in which identity positions in the North can become troubled, fossilized and self-parodic.