Tinkers : Synge and the cultural history of the Irish traveller /
The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinke...
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Irish and British literary antecedents of the revival Tinker
- Synge's negotiation of constructs of the Tinker
- Playboys of the eastern world: Synge's bohemian Tinkers and pre-Celtic islanders
- Reaffirming sedentary values: the Tinker in post-Revival drama and prose
- The end of the 'Tinker': Irish writing after Traveller politicization
- Screening the Travel(l)er.