‘... Maybe that’s just Blarney’
Irish Culture and the Persistence of Authenticity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20073530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin Graham (University of Huddersfield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 7-28 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Ireland and Cultural Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-27149-8_2 |
| OpenAlex | W2503368082 |
| ISBN | 9781349271498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 7 |
Somewhere between colonization and post-colonialism, domination and independence, the in/authenticity of the colonized is overturned. The role of authenticity alters from being a signifier of the colonized’s cultural ‘incapacities’, to being a marketable sign of value. If authenticity is not only a product of colonialism but central to its ethics, then we need a clearer grasp of its definitions, of the means by which it comes to be elevated to the status of an evaluative ethic and of how it contorts with changes in the colonial situation. And as David Lloyd and ‘Heritage Island’ seem to suggest, authenticity may have both a typical and particularfunction in the context of Irish culture and the chronologies embedded in it
Aesthetics · Art · Irish · Linguistics · Sociology · Engineering · Irish and British Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2022 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |