Inventing Geographies: The Global South and Brian Friel’s “Ballybeg” | ||
| Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 30 March 2023 | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2023.192388.1174 | ||
| Author | ||
| Amina ElHalawani* | ||
| Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In answer to the question “Vous êtes Anglais, Monsieur Beckett?” during an interview with a French journalist, the Irish playwright responded, “Au contraire” (Kinahan 405). Where does Beckett’s “Au contraire” place him or his country of birth then? This paper aims to extend the notion of the Global South to locations beyond its strictly geographic contours; locations which seem to share a “mode” of being elsewhere, of being “otherwise”, even if they lie in the northern part of the map. By focusing on the Irish playwright Brian Friel’s invented town “Ballybeg” [Little Town] as a setting for many of his plays this paper explores notions of space and place, and their importance in decolonial context. This paper, thus, focuses on Ballybeg as an invented space as well as a premise for engaging in discussions of mapping geographies, and the narratives of place evident in many of his works, most visibly in Translations. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Brian Friel; place; space; decoloniality; mapping | ||
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