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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2007-03-15</publicationDate>
        <volume>2</volume>
    <issue>2</issue>
        <startPage>85</startPage>
    <endPage>92</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>2620</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Shams and Cover-ups: The Spectacle of History in Paul Muldoon’s “Meeting the British” and “My Father and I and Billy Two Rivers” ]]></title>

    <authors>
     
      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Robert Lesman ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ Paul Muldoon’s poems “Meeting the British” and “My Father and I and Billy Two Rivers” represent history as a space of reversed allegiances.  In these poems, doubling is a constant activity that deceives the viewer or interlocutor.  This deception occurs both in the history of British imperialism and in a technological present in which an Irish father and son must make sense of the shifting and uncertain ground of their own cultural identity.  Behind the veil of the allegiance lurk obscured differences of both identity and power; Muldoon’s poems highlight the importance of being skeptical of all assertions of identity that purport to equate different, opposed and unequal cultural groups.  In the end, a knowledge of history is the most important tool for piercing the veil of deception and seeing clearly the working of difference and resisting the deception that is the weapon of those in power.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Poetry</keyword>
              <keyword>Paul Muldoon</keyword>
              <keyword>History</keyword>
              <keyword>Native American</keyword>
              <keyword>Difference</keyword>
              <keyword>Identity</keyword>
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