Identity Parades investigates of the role and importance of identity politics in modern Northern Irish society. Through a discussion of the kinds of texts that are often overlooked in analyses of culture in the North – such as film, biography, popular fiction and travel writing – the book charts the rise of identity as an increasingly popular way of defining individual and communal affiliation and considers its importance within Northern Irish political discourse as a whole. In this, Identity Parades identifies not only the possibilities but also the limits of ‘identitarian’ thinking and describes the ways in which identity positions in the North can become troubled, fossilised and self-parodic.
- ISBN10 0853236267
- ISBN13 9780853236269
- Publish Date 1 February 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 January 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Liverpool University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English