TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grzegorz Koneczniak
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-2882
SN  - 9783631868447
TI  - Building (in) the Promised Land
T2  - Postcolonial Biblical Readings of Contemporary Irish Drama (2000-2015)
DO  - 10.3726/b19370
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1163293
N2  - This book offers new close readings of contemporary Irish drama in the context of postcolonial Biblical studies. Developing Christopher Morash’s historiographical metaphor of Babel, it combines appropriations of this and other selected Biblical themes of building found in plays by such authors as Malachy McKenna (Tillsonburg), Dermot Bolger (Ballymun Trilogy), Stacey Gregg (Shibboleth), Richard Dormer (Drum Belly) or Sebastian Barry (Tales of Ballycumber). The monograph explores the stances contributed by key scholars specialising in Irish drama and theatre (Christopher Morash, Shaun Richards, Helen Heusner Lojek), draws on the most recent findings within postcolonial Biblical criticism and touches upon the assumptions of subcreation studies (Mark J. P. Wolf).
KW  - symbolic meaning, Ireland, theatre, Abbey Theatre, cultural appropriation, postcoloniality
LA  - English
ER  -