Irish Identity Refashioning In O'casey's "Dublin Trilogy"-From The Perspective Of Bhabha's Hybridity

Sean O'Casey was a famous Irish dramatist and memoirist whose life was full of dramatic color.Compared with other post-colonial writers,O'Casey also had some kind of double identity.O'Casey created a number of excellent works,among which the �Dublin Trilogy� was the most outstanding one.�Dublin Trilogy�,was the first description of the working classes in the Irish literary history,setting against the background of Dublin.O'Casey's �Dublin Trilogy� mainly conveys the beginning of fighting against the British rule for national independence.It embodies some sort of post-colonial ideology throughout the struggle.Because of the British invasion,Ireland lost its original culture,religion and language,which made the Irish people begin to think about who they were.This thesis attempts to interpret the process of losing Irish identity,self-seeking Irish identity and refashioning Irish identity in �Dublin Trilogy� from the protagonist's dialogues,religious beliefs,customs and habits,combining with the concept of hybridity.The refashioning of Irish identity has important implications for exposing the one-sidedness of colonial rights and subverting the dominance of the culture of the sovereign state.This thesis is divided into five chapters.Chapter One introduces O'Casey's life experience and his �Dublin Trilogy�.Chapter Two mainly describes the loss of identity of Ireland during the British colonial period.Chapter Three focuses on the self-seeking of Irish identity from the perspective of the third space.Chapter Four uses the concept of hybridity to analyze how Ireland absorbs the achievement brought by the British industrialization and modernization,and how Ireland adheres to its traditional culture,thereby refashioning the identity of Ireland.Chapter Five is a summary of the whole paper,generalizing some limitations and advantages of this paper.