Graham, Colin (2001) 'Blame it on Maureen O'Hara': Ireland and the trope of Authenticity. Cultural Studies, 15 (1). pp. 58-75. ISSN 0950-2386
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Abstract
This essay examines the role of authenticity as it appears as a factor in Irish cultural production. Taking examples from Yeats’s folklore collections, tourist marketing and beer advertisements, it suggests, using the writings of Adorno, Baudrillard and Jacob Golomb, that the trope of ‘authenticity’ persists, in variant forms, as a marker of how Irish material and textual culture ‘promotes’ itself in a post-colonial context.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Ireland; Irish culture; authenticity; Yeats; tourism; advertising; post–colo- nialsm; Adorno; Baudrillard; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English |
| Item ID: | 12932 |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380010006754 |
| Depositing User: | Colin Graham |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2020 13:29 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cultural Studies |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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