Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/4468
Title: Brian Friel’s Translations, a Play on Power, Space, and History
Authors: Beyad, Maryam
Sabanpouhr, Mohammad Bagher
Keywords: Brian Friel
Translations
Space
Geography
History
Power and Knowledge
Toponym
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: Khazar University Press
Citation: Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Series/Report no.: Vol. 23;№ 1
Abstract: Geography has received great attention since the 19th century. Kant established it as a discipline which resulted in the development of geographical equipment. Consequently, surveying projects were launched in England. This paper argues that Friel’s Translations depicts the extinction of the Irish culture, done by the Army’s implementation of Ireland Ordnance Survey in 1830, in which Irish/Gaelic toponyms, carrying a great volume of a people’s history, were anglicised. The English Empire strengthened its domination over Ireland through creating new maps of the Northern territories. The paper does a Foucauldian reading of geography, as a contemporary knowledge, which aided the reconstitution of the British power to hamper the contemporary revolutions or invasions. It maintains that Translations is a play on space and history, in which the role of space outweighs that of time, so does the production of a new space and the extinction of old spaces through Ordnance Survey.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/4468
ISSN: 2223-2621
Appears in Collections:2020, Vol. 23, № 1

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