Gendered and Classed: An Intersectional Approach to the Drama and Fiction of the Troubles

性别和阶级：对麻烦的戏剧和小说的交叉方法

• 批准号: 2275970
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2275970
• 关键词: Gendered; Classed; Intersectional; Approach; Drama

This PhD thesis is an examination of the representation of gender among the working classes in the drama and fiction of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland (1968-98). It takes an intersectional approach to the literature, in order to shed new light on the complexity of identity politics in Northern Ireland, examining the various power structures at play in the period, the relationship between ethnonationalism, gender and class and the role that literature has played in creating or challenging stereotypes. So far, the focus on ethnonationalism in scholarship relating to Northern Ireland has drastically overshadowed matters surrounding gender and class. Commentators have continually noted how issues of gender inequality have been side-lined both in studies of the Troubles and in the Peace Process, while others have lamented the fact that social class has been overlooked or ignored in the politics of the province. Moreover, while studies in intersectionality (those that examine the overlap of identity categories, such as gender, class, race, etc.) have gained significant momentum in the academe, they have rarely been extended to Northern Ireland. Yet, studies have shown that working-class areas were most impacted by the Troubles, and others have identified the gendered construct of ethnonational identities in Northern Ireland. Therefore, the conflict has always been gendered and classed. This research will redress this gap in the literature, examining the specific intersections of gender, class and ethnonational identities so that we may better understand the complexities of identity politics in Northern Ireland.Utilising drama and fiction as cultural texts, written to record and represent working-class lives, my research aims to address:1) How are power relations represented along class and gender lines?2) To what extent are representations of gender and class affected by ethnonational identity?3) How have drama and fiction challenged or reinforced stereotypes of northern Irish working-class men and women?The research approach will be predominantly literary, examining both renowned and lesser-known primary texts but will also involve an exploration and analysis of unexplored and uncatalogued archival material from Belfast's Linen hall Library, such as volumes of original scripts and drafts of pieces of community drama. Furthermore, original interviews will be conducted with key writers and dramatists, gaining new and critical personal insights into the significance of gender and class in their work. A key component of this research is that it will examine both femininity and masculinity and the relationship between them, from a micro to macro level, applying and testing theories surrounding gender and power in an inclusive and non-binary way. In addition, in comparing gender and class identities across the divide, it seeks to uncover commonalities in experience that can unite, rather than divide, the two communities in Northern Ireland. Finally, it will examine the power that writers have in challenging how Northern Irish identities are perceived, from both external and internal audiences, in essence challenging the very differences that have divided the country since partition.This thesis will pick up where the nascent studies of class in Northern Ireland have left off, providing a potentially ground-breaking analysis of gender among the marginalised working-class in marginalised (from Britain and from the Republic of Ireland) Northern Ireland. It is time to re-examine the literature and build on a growing body of scholarship that is repositioning gender and class in history.

这篇博士论文是关于工人阶级在戏剧和小说《北爱尔兰的麻烦》(1968-98)中的性别表现的研究。它对文学采取了交叉的方法，以新的方式揭示北爱尔兰身份政治的复杂性，考察了这一时期发挥作用的各种权力结构，种族非民族主义、性别和阶级之间的关系，以及文学在创造或挑战刻板印象方面所发挥的作用。到目前为止，在与北爱尔兰有关的学术研究中，对民族民族主义的关注已经大大盖过了围绕性别和阶级的问题。评论人士不断指出，在对动乱的研究和和平进程中，性别不平等问题一直被放在次要位置，而另一些人则哀叹，该省的政治中忽视或忽视了社会阶层。此外，虽然对交叉性的研究(考察性别、阶级、种族等身份类别重叠的研究)虽然在学术界获得了很大的势头，但它们很少被推广到北爱尔兰。然而，研究表明，工人阶级地区受到动乱的影响最大，其他人也发现了北爱尔兰种族认同的性别结构。因此，冲突一直是性别划分和分类的。这项研究将弥补文献中的这一差距，考察性别、阶级和民族认同的具体交集，以便我们更好地理解北爱尔兰身份政治的复杂性。利用戏剧和小说作为文化文本，记录和代表工人阶级生活，我的研究旨在解决：1)权力关系是如何沿着阶级和性别线表现的？2)性别和阶级的表现在多大程度上受到民族认同的影响？3)戏剧和小说如何挑战或强化对北爱尔兰工人阶级男女的刻板印象？研究方法将主要是文学，审查著名和鲜为人知的原始文本，但也将涉及对贝尔法斯特亚麻厅图书馆未经探索和未编目的档案材料的探索和分析，例如成卷的原始剧本和社区戏剧作品的草稿。此外，还将对主要作家和剧作家进行原创采访，以获得对性别和阶级在他们作品中的重要性的新的和批判性的个人见解。这项研究的一个关键组成部分是，它将从微观到宏观层面审视女性气质和男性气质以及它们之间的关系，以包容和非二元的方式应用和检验围绕性别和权力的理论。此外，在比较性别和阶级认同跨越鸿沟时，它试图揭示经验中的共性，这些共性可以团结而不是分裂北爱尔兰的两个社区。最后，它将考察作家在挑战北爱尔兰身份认同方面的力量，无论是来自外部还是内部观众，本质上是挑战自分裂以来导致这个国家分裂的根本差异。这篇论文将继续对北爱尔兰阶级的新兴研究中断的地方，提供一个潜在的开创性分析，在被边缘化的北爱尔兰(来自英国和爱尔兰共和国)的工人阶级中进行性别分析。现在是时候重新审视这些文献，并在日益壮大的学术机构的基础上，重新定位性别和阶级在历史上的地位。