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'Tinkers'
Mary M. Burke
其他書名
Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2009
ISBN
0191721670
9780191721670
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5ZsAyAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J.M. Synge's influential The Tinker's Wedding was pivotal to this 'Irishing' of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure.