INDIGENOUS THEORY: JAMES CONNOLLY AND THE THEATRE OF DECOLONIZATION

Spurgeon Thompson

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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Theatre and Performance Studies Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies

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This article argues that among the historically occluded texts of anticolonialism, the Irish activist James Connolly's play Under Which Flag serves as an example of indigenous critical theory produced in and responding to profoundly oppressive colonial conditions. First staged a week before the Easter Rebellion of 1916, the play is loaded with allegorical significance as it thinks through and challenges conventional preconceptions about class, gender, race, and the modalities of underground insurgency. A scene-by-scene analysis of the play summarizes and comments on the theoretical content of this exemplary instance of anticolonial theatre.

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