{"id":1252,"date":"2009-09-30T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2021-11-23T02:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:33:36","slug":"the-nephew-and-the-front-line-black-and-mixed-masculinities-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Nephew\u2019 and \u2018The Front Line\u2019: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018The Nephew\u2019 and \u2018The Front Line\u2019: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Old Ireland, New Irish: \u2018The same people living in the same place\u2019: American Conference for Irish Studies 2009
\n\u2018Into the heartland of the ordinary\u2019: Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009<\/p>\n

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\nCentre for Irish Studies
\nNational University of Ireland, Galway<\/em>
\n2009-06-10 through 2009-06-13<\/p>\n

Z\u00e9lie Asava<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity College Dublin<\/em><\/p>\n

This paper explores representations of ethnicity and gender in The Nephew<\/a><\/em> and The Front Line<\/a><\/em>, Irish films which feature mixed-race and black male protagonists, and so reflect the changing face of the nation in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland as well as reflecting contemporary concerns regarding the histories and transformations of Irish identity and tradition.<\/p>\n

Historically the mixed\/black body formed a canvas for Western conceptual theories of blackness, as Fanon noted: \u2018I am overdetermined from without\u2019.v In the last 20 years mixed\/black actors have featured in several Irish films – Pigs<\/a>, The Crying Game<\/a>, Mona Lisa<\/a>, Irish Jam<\/a>, Breakfast on Pluto<\/a>, Isolation<\/a> and Boy Eats Girl<\/a><\/em> \u2013 as prostitutes, single mothers, rappers and social contaminants. The transnational migratory bodies of The Nephew<\/em> and The Front Line<\/em> will be explored as revealing new directions in Irish cinema which attempt to deconstruct the mixed\/black body, multiculturalism and the \u2018new Irish\u2019.<\/p>\n

The discourses of \u2018race\u2019 and gender expressed in these two films portray \u2018the possibility of a very\u00a0differenced Ireland in the world\u2019 which Gerardine Meaney observes may reconfigure the field of Irish Studies. They represent and reinvent public and private identities by projecting non-white Irish identity onto an Irish landscape in order to bring this social demographic from the margins to the centre of Irish visual culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018The Nephew\u2019 and \u2018The Front Line\u2019: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema Old Ireland, New Irish: \u2018The same people living in the same place\u2019: American Conference for Irish Studies 2009 \u2018Into the heartland of the ordinary\u2019: Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009 Hosted by Centre for Irish Studies National University of Ireland, Galway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1196,8,14],"tags":[246,245],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-papers","tag-ireland","tag-zelie-asava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62364,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/62364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}