Deviant Acts: Essays on Queer Performance by David Cregan

By David Cregan

This ebook comprises an exhilarating number of essays concentrating on various replacement performances occurring in modern eire. whereas it highlights the actual representations of homosexual and lesbian id it additionally brings to gentle how variety has consistently been part of Irish tradition and is, actually, shaping what it skill to be Irish today.

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