Martin McDonagh's Inheritance of Cultural Memory: Gender and The Enduring Relationship between Hunger and Power in The Cripple of Inishmaan and The Beauty Queen of Leenane

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dc.contributor.advisorWilson, Steve M.
dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Keri L.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCohen, Paul N.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHennessy, Michael J.
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-29T17:22:26Z
dc.date.available2013-04-29T17:22:26Z
dc.date.issued2013-05
dc.description.abstractEmploying the perspective of cultural trauma studies, this thesis explores the rich cultural memory of food’s association with power that has surfaced in many works of the Irish Canon—including W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Edna O’Brien—and has been inherited and forwarded by Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Cripple of Inishmaan. This is achieved by looking through the lens of gender, which further clarifies and magnifies this association. In doing so, this thesis will fill a hungry gap in scholarship that ought to acknowledge a truth important enough to be traceable and enduring for centuries: in Ireland, food equals power.
dc.description.departmentEnglish
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent95 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationFitzgerald, K. (2013). <i>Martin McDonagh's inheritance of cultural memory: Gender and the enduring relationship between hunger and power in The Cripple of Inishmaan and The Beauty Queen of Leenane</i> (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/4543
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectIrish
dc.subjectIreland
dc.subjectMcDonagh, Martin
dc.subjectJoyce, James
dc.subjectBeckett, Samuel
dc.subjectYeats, W.B.
dc.subjectO'Brien, Edna
dc.subjectFreud, Sigmund
dc.subjectFood
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectPower
dc.subjectAgency
dc.subjectCultural trauma studies
dc.subjectCultural memory
dc.subjectSt Brigid
dc.subjectQueen Medb
dc.subjectO'Malley, Grace
dc.subjectMother
dc.subjectSexuality
dc.subjectThe Cripple of Inishmaan
dc.subjectThe Beauty Queen of Leenane
dc.subject.lcshMcDonagh, Martin--Beauty Queen of Leenane--Irish--Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subject.lcshMcDonagh, Martin--The Cripple of Inishmaan--Irish--Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subject.lcshCollective memory--Irelanden_US
dc.subject.lcshFood supply--Social aspectsen_US
dc.subject.lcshPolitical participationen_US
dc.subject.lcshSex discriminationen_US
dc.titleMartin McDonagh's Inheritance of Cultural Memory: Gender and The Enduring Relationship between Hunger and Power in The Cripple of Inishmaan and The Beauty Queen of Leenane
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentEnglish
thesis.degree.disciplineLiterature
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University-San Marcos
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Art
txstate.departmentEnglish

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