Peace and beyond in the Middle East: Colin Teevan's war trilogy
Journal
Journal of War and Culture Studies
Journal Volume
7
Journal Issue
2
Pages
119-132
Date Issued
2014
Author(s)
Abstract
Colin Teevan, born in Dublin in 1968, is of a generation that has witnessed rapid social and economic changes that enrich the Irish theatre with new material on the global stage. His war trilogy, which comprises How Many Miles to Basra? (2004), The Lion of Kabul (2009) and There Was A Man, There Was No Man (2011), set respectively in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Jordan, mirrors the improved status of Ireland in international politics. The concerns that are dramatized in the three plays can be listed as: justice under different circumstances, authenticity of war news, religious and cultural clashes between Islam and Christianity, historiography, and racism. It is of greater significance that Teevan, although not always writing explicitly about Irish concerns in the Middle East crises/troubles, offers a retrospective view based on the tangled experiences of Ireland with Great Britain now and in the past, in an attempt to induce more effective dialogues between East and West and beyond ideologies. © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014.
Subjects
Anabasis; Christianity; Colin Teevan; Irish; Islam; Middle East; Post-colonial; Xenophon
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Type
journal article