Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the Concept of Hybridity
Abstract
This chapter examines the contemporary Irish identity and social reactions
to the process of cultural hybridization, as they are depicted in the
late Viking-Age narrative Cath Maige Tuired. The tale is a product of a
transitional era whose preoccupations and prejudices are reflected in
the narrative representations of the Fomoiri and the Tuatha Dé Danann.
This chapter considers Cath Maige Tuired within its historical context as a
narrative of hybridity in which the pivotal cultural identities are built on an
ongoing comparison between the tale’s representations of the Self and the
Other. At the same time the narrative illustrates a number of other cultural
concerns at the forefront of the collective intellectual consciousness.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press