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Class, Heritage, Space and their Configuration in the Belfast "Titanic Experience" and Stewart Parker's "Iceberg"

This chapter on Stewart Parker is part of a major reappraisal of one of Ireland's most significant twentieth-century playwrights: Parker's work may be thought of as attempting to do for Belfast in dramatic writing what Joyce did for Dublin in prose. Following a conference on Parker in 2008 at Queen's University Belfast, a number of chapters were commissioned by the editor of this volume to underscore this new look at Parker's work. Class identity and Protestant working-class heritage are central to Parker's oeuvre, yet none of the papers at the original conference had specifically addressed these issues - issues which have continuing political agency in contemporary Belfast. As a result of my earlier work is these areas, I was commissioned to write a chapter that would to some extent address this gap, but that would also try to locate Parker's work within more contemporary debates about class, identity and politics in Northern Ireland.

PDF of accepted version of chapter is in the public domain at: http://eprints.ulster.ac.uk/28160