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JtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 cCourtbyMargaret Mary Catherine Eaton BA (Hons), MAThesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy November 2015FRANK CONFESSIONS: PERFORMANCE IN THE LIFE-WRITINGS OF FRANK MCCOURTABSTRACTThis thesis focuses on the work of Frank McCourt, a writer who came to p Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 rominence in the 1990s for writing best-selling memoirs that touched upon a wider set of issues in the contemporary cultural debate: namely Ireland itMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
self, the status of the memoir genre, and Irish-American identity. In five distinct chapters, the thesis adopts a postcolonial perspective using the tJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 performances have had upon global impressions of Ireland in the era of the 'Celtic Tiger’. My thesis combines Merriman's premise that in performance we can see the basic idea of Irish culture being resistant to modernism and, therefore, Ireland never properly decolonised with Cleary's notion of disa Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 ssociation of past and present and his concern with the social and cultural implications of Ireland's uncritical embrace of a form of capitalist moderMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
nisation. Cleary and Merriman's key ideas are reshaped to uncover the ways in which McCourt creates a version of 'Irishness' that is replete with recuJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 and cultural identity of 1930s and 1940s Ireland in which he reworks and revitalises his impoverished, traumatic childhood, revealing that the identity he expresses is a conscious performance. My analysis reveals how McCourt IS engaged in a mode of life-writing that follows his journey from boyhood Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 to manhood in a manner that mirrors the parallel process of Ireland's Journey into independence and economic prosperity when Ireland and Trishness' bMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
ecame desirable commodities. Throughout, I argue that McCourt utilises performance to market Irish identity successfully to a mass readership since hiJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 is Irish and American audiences simultaneously by making use of the dual nationality and fluid identity that being Irish-American affords him, whereby he condemns conditions in Éamon de Valera's Ireland at the same time that he exhibits a sense of nostalgia for the past. In McCourt's writing we can Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 recognise many tropes appropriated from films, songs, other memoirs and melodramatic themes, thus providing a meta-textual 'framework' by which McCourMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
t's experiences are organised and given meaning for an audience to understand. As a consequence, each chapter verifies that his deployment of culturalJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 rst chapter, 'Angela's Ashes in Performance', I use Merriman's idea that theatre and society have the potential to interact and become a space of social transformation and utopian thought, to emphasise the overlooked performative dynamic of McCourt’s best-known text, the memoir Angela's Ashes. The t Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 hesis begins from this structuring principle to prove that a reworking of Angela's Ashes for performance makes visible the mediation and presentationMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
of 'Irishness' in the re-written text, and how this forges a relation between the past of the narrative and the present of the performance. The first JtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 se that this production was strikingly political, and made great efforts to speak to the situation of the Irish diaspora in Derby and to draw attention to the contemporary alienation caused by poverty in that city. The second half of this chapter scrutinises the contrasting example ofAlan Parker’s f Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 ilm version of Angela's Ashes, which was realised by Paramount Pictures in 1999. I argue that, in contrast with the Derby adaptation, the Parker filmMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
evaded any localising particularities that might enable a political critique of any particular nation or governmental regime to be constructed. The chJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 , McCourt is revealed to be a writer who relied upon the playhouse when creating his own memoirs, and whose writing is itself appropriate for re-adaptation back into the realm of the theatrical. Each of the chapters that follow shows the work of construction and mediation in McCourt own texts, demon Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 strating how ideas about re-presentation and rewriting Inform the thesis.The second chapter, 'I'd Love To Be Irish When It's Time for a Song', asessesMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
how and why McCourt's work displays an extraordinary strong musical influence and how music intervenes when McCourt uses personal memory to return toJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 with a means of activating his memory in order to develop the autobiographical nature of the narrative through allusion and reference.The third chapter, 'Are ye Gangsters or Cowboys? [...] Fred Astaire How Are You?' reveals how McCourt uses 'fantasy' figures from the cinema, particularly the matine Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 e heroes John Wayne, James Cagney and Fred Astaire. The Western hero, the 'hoodlum' and the dancer are shown to provide a cultural framework for McCouMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
rt when he comes to describe and explore the vexed issue of Irish-American masculinities.The two-fold focus of the fourth chapter, 'Melodramatic MomenJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 rk of these writers in both textual and performed contexts, and that he relied upon such melodramatic tropes In his own presentation of self, both on the page and in person.The fifth chapter, ‘Frank McCourt's Performance of Irishness: Joycean and other Legacies' broadens out beyond the four walls of Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 the playhouse to analyse how McCourt may be relying on a set of paradigms from Ireland's best known writer, James Joyce. As I will show, this Is notMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
simply a case of McCourt emulating Joyce's own writings - which of course he does - but also a question of how McCourt navigates a set of expectationsJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 ential in this enterprise. Throughout this long process they have guided my research. Julie has introduced me to interdisciplinary ways of thinking, and I have been inspired by Jim’s own work in Irish studies. This thesis has benefited from their recommended constraints, and editorial comments have Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 been offered with unfailing kindness, good humour and enthusiasm. I am privileged to have been their student.I am obliged to Dr Joanna Robinson for heMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
r encouragement and suggestions in the very early stages of my research. I am particularly grateful to Jo for allowing me to participate in her 2007 uJtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 n, and I am equally thankful to my external examiner, Dr Aidan Arrowsmith, for his constructive advice and support, and for the potential that they both recognised in this thesis. I also extend gratitude to Dr Sinead Moynihan for permitting me to participate in her 2008 undergraduate module 'Irish A Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 merica in Literature and Fiction: A special Relationship?’I owe a debt to Frank McCourt (RIP) and Malachy McCourt for the promptness of their responseMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
to my enquiries. My friends Ceri Collen-Boot, Rebecca Chudleigh, and Carol Harries-Wood have extended hospitality and support during trying times. I JtThe University ofNottinghamUNITED KINGDOM • CHINA • MALAYSIASchool of English StudiesFrank Confessions: Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank Mc Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 ateful to her for proofreading the earlier version of the thesis. I am similarly appreciative of Rebecca's tireless reading of numerous versions of each chapter. My warmest thanks go to my family for their encouragement, especially to Kevin for his steadfast belief in my ability to complete this the Margaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016 sis.CONTENTSAbstractAcknowledgementsIntroduction7Critical Framework10Locating Performance16Critical Perspectives on Life-Writing andPerformance18WhatMargaret Eaton Corrected Thesis April 2016
is 'Irlshness'?22Commodified 'Irishness' in 'Celtic Tiger'Ireland24Critical Perspectives on Life-Writing28The Child Self33Chapter Overview38Gọi ngay
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