"Something Dreadful and Grand"
American Literature and The Irish-Jewish Unconscious
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 August 2015
- ISBN 9780190227951
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 160x234x22 mm
- Weight 539 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 halftones 0
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Short description:
This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-America, arguing for the centrality of these two diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama.
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"Something Dreadful and Grand": American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious takes its title from an essay that introduces John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar, a text that marks over 150 years of the so-called "Irish play" on the New York stage. This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-America, arguing for the centrality of these two diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. But more than this, the book reads such cultural forms as tenement fiction, Tin Pan Alley music, and melodrama as part of a larger "circum-North Atlantic" world in which texts and performers from Ireland, Europe, and America were and still are involved in a continuous cultural exchange within which stereotypes and performances of Jewishness and Irishness took center stage. For this reason, such Irish writers as James Joyce, Bernard Shaw, and Sean O'Casey played pivotal roles in the development of modern American culture, particularly as they influenced and interacted with writers like Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets, Henry Roth, and many others. Such Irish-American writers as Eugene O'Neill were similarly influenced by their interactions with Jewish-American writers like Michael Gold and Edward Dahlberg.
While focusing on the modern period, this project traces a genealogy of modern drama and fiction to the nineteenth century stage in which Irish and Jewish melodrama-and the appearances of international stars in such roles as Shylock and Leah, the Forsaken-shaped the often contradictory and excessive dimensions of ethnicity that are both allosemitic and allohibernian. Borrowing a term from psychoanalytic theory, I also explore the larger dimensions of an Irish-Jewish unconscious underlying cultural production in America. The closing chapter considers more recent representations of Irish-Jewish interactions by John Banville, Brendan Behan, Norman Mailer, and Harold Pinter; and examples from a newer immigrant literature bring this discussion into the present.
This book does more than track the significance of Irish and Jewish themes and characters on the American stage
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One:
Introduction: Performing the Irish Jewish Unconscious
Chapter Two:
The Cultural Work of Irish- and Jewish-American Melodrama
Chapter Three:
Allosemitism and the Performative Uncanny: Leah and Shylock, Svengali and the Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter Four:
The Jewish-Irish Modern American Drama
Chapter Five:
The New Wandering Rocks
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