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Auteur(s) : Richtarik, Marilynn J.
Titre(s) : Stewart Parker [Texte imprimé] : a life / Marilynn Richtarik
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford university press, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXVII-419 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : A British Boyhood ; Queen's University ; Intimations of Mortality ; 'Calling Myself
a Writer' ; Talking About (Cultural) Revolution ; Back to Belfast ; Living in Interesting
Times ; A Professional Playwright ; Suddenly Somebody ; Dark Night of the Soul
; Leaps of Faith ; Fruition ; Show Business ; Last Words.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-409) and index
"Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family,
and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is
in many ways the story of his generation. Other aspects of his personal history, though,
such as the amputation of his left leg at age 19, helped to create an extraordinarily
perceptive observer and commentator. Steeped in American popular culture as a child
and young adult, he spent five years teaching in the United States before returning
to Belfast in August 1969, the same week British troops responded to sectarian disturbances
there. Parker had developed a sense of writing as a form of political action in the
highly charged atmosphere of the US in the late 1960s, which he applied in many and
varied capacities throughout the worst years of the Troubles to express his own socialist
and secular vision of Northern Irish potential. As a young aspiring poet and novelist,
he supported himself with free-lance work that brought him into contact with institutions
ranging from BBC Northern Ireland to the Irish Times (for which he wrote personal
columns and the music review feature High Pop) and from the Queen's University Extramural
Department to Long Kesh internment camp (where his creative writing students included
Gerry Adams). It is as a playwright, however, that Parker earned a permanent spot
in the literary canon with drama that encapsulates his experience of Northern Ireland
in the 1970s. Marilynn Richtarik's Stewart Parker: A Life illuminates the genesis,
development, and meaning of such classic plays as Spokesong, Northern Star, and Pentecost
- works that continue to shed light on the North's past, present, and future - in
the context of Parker's life and times. Meticulously researched and engagingly written,
this critical biography rewards general readers and specialists alike."--Publisher's
website
Sujet(s) : Parker, Stewart (1941-1988)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199695034 (hardback) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0199695032 (hardback) (acid-free
paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435496759
Notice n° :
FRBNF43549675
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