| Traveller Friends Contributor(s): Harrison, Paul (Editor), Ã"'haodha Micheal (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443812579 ISBN-13: 9781443812573 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 305.568 |
| Physical Information: 84 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long considered as outsiders or strangers in their own country, the Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction; they were the drivers for these cultural representations of their own community. Paul Harrison's photos are beautiful because they are arresting. They show us a hidden Ireland, one that is often relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer. They interrogate the notion of what it means to be human. The late-twentieth century has witnessed a particular prominence assigned to the discourses of difference and Otherness, discourses which subvert hegemonically-defined representations and demystify what was once simple domination and reification. Representations of cultural minorities, whether literary or visual, play a profound role in how groups such as Irish Travellers are defined and treated by the non-Traveller community. Essentialist notions of migrants and other traditionally-nomadic peoples have a long and complex history. The history of Irish Traveller is no different. For hundreds of years they have en-numerated the projective function of the Othering process, a form of rejection and marginalisation that was the institutionalization of ideas and images. |