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Jason King

University of Galway, Moore Institute, Centre for Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, Post-Doc

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Jason King (Postdoctoral Researcher) has previously lectured at the University of Limerick, Concordia University, and NUI Maynooth. His research specializes in intercultural performance at the intersection of migration, memory, and literary studies in the past and present. His publications include “Irish Multiculturalism in Crisis: Integration, Migration, and Recession in Contemporary Ireland” (forthcoming special issue of Irish Studies Review, co-edited with Pilar Villar-Argaiz,), “Irish Global Migration and Memory” (special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, co-edited by Marguérite Corporaal), “Memoir, Memory, and Migration in Irish Culture” (special issue of Irish Review, co-edited with Tina O’Toole), and Where is Home: An Educational Resource on Refugees in International and Irish Perspective (co-authored with Piaras Mac Éinrí). His work on interculturalism, migration, and Irish theatre and performance has appeared in Irish Review, Éire-Ireland, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies among other journals and multiple edited collections.

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Papers by Jason King

Broadening Ireland: From Famine Migrants to Asylum Applicants and Refugees (2003)

'Raparees' or Refugees? The Normative Image of Involuntary Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature (2006)

Emigration and the Irish Novel: Charles Lever, the Picaresque, and the Emigration Narrative Form (2005)

Three Kings: Migrant Masculinities in Irish Social Practice, Theoretical Perspective and Theatre Performance (2016)

This article examines deprivedmale migrants' conceptions and performative expressions of hegemoni... more This article examines deprivedmale migrants' conceptions and performative expressions of hegemonic masculinity in Ireland.It explores their widespread propensity to develop hypermasculine self-images based on ideals of cultural loyalty and economic prosperity that are, in fact, compensatory for their sense of emasculation, marginalization and social failure as a result of economic difficulties within their host societies.The first section surveys perceptions and preconceptions about migrant men and young male immigrants in a variety of Irish media, political and social discourses. The second section considers recent research and the development of theoretical perspectives about migrant masculinity in Ireland. In the third section, it is argued that these broad discourses and preconceptions are accentuated and encapsulated in a corpus of Irish theatre and film productions, such as Jimmy Murphy's play about Irish emigrants in London,The Kings of the Kilburn High Road (2001), which was subsequently adapted by Tom Collins in the Irish language film Kings (2007). Bisi Adigun's Arambe Productions has appropriated and complicated the Kings of the Kilburn High Road storyline in turn. Adigun reenacted the play withWest African immigrants rather than Irish emigrants in London (2006). He subsequently adapted its storyline to a contemporary London setting in Home, Sweet Home (performed in Lagos, 2010), and then he reset the play in Dublin with an African-Irish immigrant cast in The Paddies of Parnell Street (2013). In these different versions of the Kings plotline, ideals of migrant masculinity, the image of the "alien" and the meaning of the play/film perceptibly shift depending on whether it is performed by an English-speaking Irish cast, a cast of Irishlanguage speakers, or an African immigrant cast in Arambe's productions. Yet, together, these works suggest that immigrants to Ireland and returning Irish emigrants, as well as marginalized Gaelic speakers, face similar gender specific constraints in achieving recognition and gaining acceptance in modern Irish society. Each version is based on competing conceptions and performances of hegemonic masculinity that come into conflict at the culmination of the plot's development. Both on stage and on screen, they give expression to migrant masculine ideals in Ireland that are defined by wider political and social tensions which they seek to resolve in their respective performances.

Contemporary Irish Theatre, the new Playboy controversy, and the economic crisis (2016)

French-Canadian and Irish Memories of Montreal's Famine Migration of 1847 (2015)

'Une Voix d'Irlande': Integration, Migration, and Travelling Nationalism Between Famine Ireland and Quebec (2016)

Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland's Famine Exodus

James Joyce, the Bloomsday Centenary, and the Citizenship Referendum

Where is Home? An Educational Resource on Refugees in International and Irish Perspective

Calypso Productions is an award winning Dublin based professional theatre company that aims to pu... more

Irish Multicultural Epiphanies.Modernity and the Recuperation of Migrant Memory in the Writing of Hugo Hamilton

Interculturalism and Irish Theatre.The Portrayal of Immigrants on the Irish Stage

Beyond Ryanga: The Image of Africa in Contemporary Irish Theatre

Irish Multicultural Fiction: Metaphors of Miscegenation and Interracial Romance

Black Saint Patrick Revisited: Calypso's "Tower of Babel" and Culture Ireland as Irish Global Performance Networks

Canadian, Irish, and Ugandan Theatre Links.An Interview with George Seremba

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

Biographies of Displacement: Irish Refugee Narratives in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Remembering Famine Orphans: The Transmission of Famine Memory Between Ireland and Quebec (2012)

Remembering and Forgetting the Famine Irish in Quebec: Genuine and False Memoirs, Communal Memory, and Migration.

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The Remembrance of Irish Famine Migrants in the Fever Sheds of Montreal

Broadening Ireland: From Famine Migrants to Asylum Applicants and Refugees (2003)

'Raparees' or Refugees? The Normative Image of Involuntary Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature (2006)

Emigration and the Irish Novel: Charles Lever, the Picaresque, and the Emigration Narrative Form (2005)

Three Kings: Migrant Masculinities in Irish Social Practice, Theoretical Perspective and Theatre Performance (2016)

This article examines deprivedmale migrants' conceptions and performative expressions of hegemoni... more This article examines deprivedmale migrants' conceptions and performative expressions of hegemonic masculinity in Ireland.It explores their widespread propensity to develop hypermasculine self-images based on ideals of cultural loyalty and economic prosperity that are, in fact, compensatory for their sense of emasculation, marginalization and social failure as a result of economic difficulties within their host societies.The first section surveys perceptions and preconceptions about migrant men and young male immigrants in a variety of Irish media, political and social discourses. The second section considers recent research and the development of theoretical perspectives about migrant masculinity in Ireland. In the third section, it is argued that these broad discourses and preconceptions are accentuated and encapsulated in a corpus of Irish theatre and film productions, such as Jimmy Murphy's play about Irish emigrants in London,The Kings of the Kilburn High Road (2001), which was subsequently adapted by Tom Collins in the Irish language film Kings (2007). Bisi Adigun's Arambe Productions has appropriated and complicated the Kings of the Kilburn High Road storyline in turn. Adigun reenacted the play withWest African immigrants rather than Irish emigrants in London (2006). He subsequently adapted its storyline to a contemporary London setting in Home, Sweet Home (performed in Lagos, 2010), and then he reset the play in Dublin with an African-Irish immigrant cast in The Paddies of Parnell Street (2013). In these different versions of the Kings plotline, ideals of migrant masculinity, the image of the "alien" and the meaning of the play/film perceptibly shift depending on whether it is performed by an English-speaking Irish cast, a cast of Irishlanguage speakers, or an African immigrant cast in Arambe's productions. Yet, together, these works suggest that immigrants to Ireland and returning Irish emigrants, as well as marginalized Gaelic speakers, face similar gender specific constraints in achieving recognition and gaining acceptance in modern Irish society. Each version is based on competing conceptions and performances of hegemonic masculinity that come into conflict at the culmination of the plot's development. Both on stage and on screen, they give expression to migrant masculine ideals in Ireland that are defined by wider political and social tensions which they seek to resolve in their respective performances.

Contemporary Irish Theatre, the new Playboy controversy, and the economic crisis (2016)

French-Canadian and Irish Memories of Montreal's Famine Migration of 1847 (2015)

'Une Voix d'Irlande': Integration, Migration, and Travelling Nationalism Between Famine Ireland and Quebec (2016)

Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland's Famine Exodus

James Joyce, the Bloomsday Centenary, and the Citizenship Referendum

Where is Home? An Educational Resource on Refugees in International and Irish Perspective

Calypso Productions is an award winning Dublin based professional theatre company that aims to pu... more

Irish Multicultural Epiphanies.Modernity and the Recuperation of Migrant Memory in the Writing of Hugo Hamilton

Interculturalism and Irish Theatre.The Portrayal of Immigrants on the Irish Stage

Beyond Ryanga: The Image of Africa in Contemporary Irish Theatre

Irish Multicultural Fiction: Metaphors of Miscegenation and Interracial Romance

Black Saint Patrick Revisited: Calypso's "Tower of Babel" and Culture Ireland as Irish Global Performance Networks

Canadian, Irish, and Ugandan Theatre Links.An Interview with George Seremba

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

Biographies of Displacement: Irish Refugee Narratives in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Remembering Famine Orphans: The Transmission of Famine Memory Between Ireland and Quebec (2012)

Remembering and Forgetting the Famine Irish in Quebec: Genuine and False Memoirs, Communal Memory, and Migration.

PRESS 7 'l'he lrish Ravicut is u rcflrrrrrdiourrral. Sinc:c it first lppclrctl irr l()ll(r it lra... more PRESS 7 'l'he lrish Ravicut is u rcflrrrrrdiourrral. Sinc:c it first lppclrctl irr l()ll(r it lras cstflblishctl itself as a journal olrccord. lt proviclcs a firrurrr fiir criticrrl untl crcrrtivc writing i1 English and Irish. Its editorial policy is pluralist lrrd irrrcrclisciplinary; pluralist in its commitment to involving writers from all parts and traclitions of thc island and frolr other countries; interdisciplinary in its desire to publish articles on the arts, society, philosophy, history, politics, the environment and science. our aim is to serve a general rather than a specialist readership.

The Remembrance of Irish Famine Migrants in the Fever Sheds of Montreal