出刊年月/Date of Publishing

2010.03

所屬卷期/Vol. & No.   第40卷第1期 Vol. 40, No. 1

類型/Type                 研究論文 Research Article

篇名/Title
Ireland on Tour—Riverdance, the Irish Diaspora, and the Celtic Tiger
行旅天下愛爾蘭︰〈大河之舞〉、愛爾蘭離散經驗、克爾特之虎

作者/Author
林玉珍 Yu-Chen Lin

頁碼/Pagination
pp. 31-64

摘要
本文結合歷史觀點與文化研究，將〈大河之舞〉視為克爾特之虎現象的表徵，其內容與形式，在在呼應愛爾蘭揮別國族創傷、邁向經濟競爭、以因應全球化的國策。值得注意的是，全球化的原始形式深植於愛爾蘭文化之中。遠在當今所謂全球化時代之前，愛爾蘭舞蹈即因人口流動而廣為吸納外來形式，後來更在境內外文化國族主義活動交互激盪之餘，開始帶有國族色彩。在此時期移民舞者不僅在移居國推廣愛爾蘭舞蹈、與主導舞蹈走向的國內官方分庭抗禮，更在1960年末期開始返國參加舞蹈競技。此時愛爾蘭正值文化記憶修訂，繼而結合傳統與商業，打造文化觀光業，〈大河之舞〉即為箇中翹楚，將傳統舞蹈包裝為現代愛爾蘭的展示櫥窗。以此觀點，〈大河之舞〉最發人深省之處，在於全球化風潮下，國族主義現象該如何重新界定。

Abstract
Incorporating a historical perspective into culture studies, this paper contends that, as an emblem of the Celtic Tiger, Riverdance is a parable of Ireland’s response to the forces of globalization as the nation moved away from preoccupations with its traumatic past toward the economic competition of today. In their early forms, responses to global influences were embedded in Irish culture. Long before what is commonly called the age of globalization, Irish dance was already “proto-global” in its openness to the flow of cultural exchanges generated by people’s travel. This flow formed an interesting dialectic with cultural nationalism and endowed Irish dance with a national(ist) character. Meanwhile, this narrowing of Irish dance was interrogated by dancers in diaspora who began to travel to the home country to participate in dance competitions in the late 1960s. This reversal of migration coincided with a nationwide revision of cultural memory, leading to the emergence of cultural tourism—a marriage between tradition and commerce—along with the emergence of the Celtic Tiger in the 1990s. Adopting cultural tourism studies as my framework of interpretation, I subsequently explore how Riverdance renovates tradition to produce a showcase of modern Ireland. In conclusion, I argue that Riverdance is interesting in that it compels us to redefine nationalism and its attendant categories in the age of globalization.

關鍵字/Key Word
〈大河之舞〉、愛爾蘭離散經驗、克爾特之虎、全球化、文化觀光
Riverdance, the Irish Diaspora, the Celtic Tiger, globalization, cultural tourism

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