@article{ART002461263},
author={Hyesun Jang},
title={Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2019},
volume={32},
number={1},
pages={279-304}
TY - JOUR
AU - Hyesun Jang
TI - Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2019
VL - 32
IS - 1
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 279
EP - 304
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This paper aims to explore the works of Northern Irish playwright, Stewart Parker (1941-1988) by focusing on alternative images of Northern Irish spaces found in Pentecost (1987). As Belfast in the 1970s was heavily under both urban planning and sectarian violence called “Troubles,” most of the Northern Irish Troubles plays invariably dramatize sectarian violence and its devastating effects on people. In stark contrast to fixed and claustrophobic time/space dominant in the Troubles plays, however, Parker constructs his theater space in ways that accord with Michel Foucault's concept of “heterotopia” with its multiple heterogeneous temporality and spatiality. The purpose of spatial analysis of Parker’s drama is to actively negotiate the spatiality in drama in different ways; how they generate their own forms of spatial expressions to make sense of, manage, expose, critique or contest Northern Irish spaces. My intention is to argue that the spatial orientation of Parker’s drama is “centrifugal,”—which Christopher Morash and Shaun Richards describe as one of the two major forces (centripetal and centrifugal) of the theater—as the interplay between the theatrical space and the theatrical experience of the spectators can impact on social space in reverse order. The fact that Parker’s drama has played an important part in reshaping the socio-political arena of Northern Ireland further attests to theater’s powerful role in the shaping of cultural/political identities instead of relegating its role to the mimetic representation of the Northern Irish Trouble.
KW - Northern Irish drama;Troubles play;Heterotopia;Stewart Parker;Pentecost
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Hyesun Jang. (2019). Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost. Journal of Modern English Drama, 32(1), 279-304.
Hyesun Jang. 2019, "Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.32, no.1 pp.279-304.
Hyesun Jang "Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost" Journal of Modern English Drama 32.1 pp.279-304 (2019) : 279.
Hyesun Jang. Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost. 2019; 32(1), 279-304.
Hyesun Jang. "Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost" Journal of Modern English Drama 32, no.1 (2019) : 279-304.
Hyesun Jang. Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost. Journal of Modern English Drama, 32(1), 279-304.
Hyesun Jang. Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2019; 32(1) 279-304.
Hyesun Jang. Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost. 2019; 32(1), 279-304.
Hyesun Jang. "Imagining Alternative Northern Ireland: Spatial Dynamics in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost" Journal of Modern English Drama 32, no.1 (2019) : 279-304.
