Indigenous Theory
James Connolly and the Theatre of Decolonization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3516151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Spurgeon Thompson |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-25 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698010801933820 |
| OpenAlex | W2157095087 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article argues that among the historically occluded texts of anticolonialism, the Irish activist James Connolly's play Under Which Flag serves as an example of indigenous critical theory produced in and responding to profoundly oppressive colonial conditions. First staged a week before the Easter Rebellion of 1916, the play is loaded with allegorical significance as it thinks through and challenges conventional preconceptions about class, gender, race, and the modalities of underground insurgency. A scene-by-scene analysis of the play summarizes and comments on the theoretical content of this exemplary instance of anticolonial theatre
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Class (philosophy · Colonialism · Decolonization · Epistemology · Indigenous · Insurgency · Irish · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Sociology · Irish and British Studies · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Theatre and Performance Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |