Insubordinate Irish Travellers in the text
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Manchester
Manchester University Press
2011
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- Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; List of abbreviations; 1. Irish Travellers and the nineteenth century 'Others'; 2. The Traveller colonised; 3. Irish Travellers and the bardic tradition; 4. Theoretical perspectives and the Irish context; 5. Mapping 'difference': Irish Travellersand the Questionnaire; 6. Travellers as countercultural; 7. Narrative and the Irish imaginary: Contested terrains; 8. Anti-Traveller prejudice: The narrative within the Irish imaginary; 9. The counter-tradition and symbolic inversion; 10. The dichotomy of Self and Other:Some considerations; Bibliography
- This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland?s collective imagination. A particular focus of the book is on the exploration of the Traveller as?Other?, an ""Other"" who is perceived as both inside and outside Ireland?s collective ideation. Frequently constructed as a group whose cultural tenets are in a dichotomous opposition to that of the?settled? community, this book demonstrates the ambivalence and complexity of the Irish Traveller?Other? in the context of a European