Witness to Conflict: Stewart Parker and Post-1970s Irish Theatre
Chanté Mouton Kinyon, University of Notre Dame
What does it mean to be a Witness? This paper considers what it means to bear witness in literary cultural productions by primarily focusing on the work of Stewart Parker. In this paper, I focus on theatre in Northern Ireland to evaluate how African American forms and the African diaspora impacted post-1970s Irish theatre. In centering the discussion on theatre in Northern Ireland, I am able to document the way the mid-twentieth century African American struggle for Civil Rights shaped Irish arts during the era of civil conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.
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