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- W2087473388 abstract "Polymorphous Playboys:Irish–Caribbean Shadow Dancing Kathleen M. Gough (bio) Plays and ghosts have a lot in common. The energy which flows from some intense moment of conflict in a particular time and place seems to activate them both. Plays intend to achieve resolution, however, while ghosts appear to be stuck fast in a quest for vengeance. —Stewart Parker (xiii) And therein lies the frightening aspect of haunting: you can be grasped and hurtled into the maelstrom of the powerful and material forces that lay claim to you whether you claim them as yours or not. —Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (166) On the Twelfth of July, 2003, I took an unusually empty train from Dublin to Belfast to attend one of the biggest and most contentious Orange Parades in Northern Ireland's Loyalist Marching Season.1 That day, I stood among the crowds on the sidewalks who were waving their Union Jack flags while wearing Union Jack jester hats, watching the Orangemen parade down the street. In order to not draw attention to myself or appear as a cynical cultural tourist, I opted to forgo taking photographs that day and instead collected newspapers and other ephemera from the event. That evening's edition of the Belfast Telegraph held two remarkably contrasting images on its front page. Above the headline, which read, Sunshine Greets Twelfth Marchers, were two circular images, in opposite corners, previewing articles inside the paper. The image in the top right-hand corner showed members of various Orange Order lodges marching in their bowler hats and orange sashes, but it was the image in the opposite corner that drew my attention. In this image – rendered as a watercolor painting – a single boat on blue water and underneath a cloudless sky – was flagged with the message Nine Hours to Paradise: A Holiday to the Caribbean. [End Page 777] While this is hardly an unusual representation of the Caribbean, which is packaged for tourists who wish to get away from their lived reality and spend a vacation in a land often considered outside of time, I found its placement in this particular edition of the Belfast Telegraph to be more than a bit ironic. For me, the irony was not only the image of the ideal escape from the city of Belfast on this particular day. When I turned to page 10 to read more about this vacation paradise, I was alerted to the fact that the island of Tobago was this travel writer's destination. Tobago is jointly governed with the neighboring island of Trinidad and together they comprise a dual island-nation. In 2002, Trinidad and Tobago (the model nation of racial harmony and diversity) held a close federal election, which resulted in the Afro-Caribbean candidate Patrick Manning and the East Indian candidate Basdeo Panday's both claiming the right to be prime minister – leading to a political stalemate. The two candidates represented very different racialized and religious constituencies. The BBC news service wondered whether Trinidad and Tobago would become the next Northern Ireland, where political stalemates often happen, along racialized, religious–political lines, between Catholics and Protestants (Trouble in Paradise). To be sure, from the comfort of the Coco Reef Resort, a 150-room colonial style low rise set in 10 acres of lush gardens and located just five minutes from the airport, (Morton 10), this travel writer and other Caribbean vacationers would hardly be aware of the political climate of this paradisal and other-worldly island. The other, slightly more opaque irony in the inclusion of this particular article about this particular island-nation – one that boasts the most spectacular carnival in the western hemisphere – is its unlikely relationship to the public relations spin on the 2003 Orange Parades. In 2003, Northern Ireland's tourist board – in a stupefying move – attempted to publicize the highly sectarian Orange marches (the site of violence as far back as partition in 1922 and more recently since the Troubles started in 1969) as a celebration for tourists much like Mardi Gras (Innes, Loyalist Marches).2 Thus, the official images, carefully aligned across the front page of the Belfast Telegraph, of the Orange Parade..." @default.
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