Reading Irish-American fiction : the hyphenated self /

This book analyzes five novels, all published between 1989 and 1999, in which the main characters are 'hyphenated people': Americans who are ancestrally joined to, yet realistically separated from, the Irish. Hallissy explores why these characters think of themselves as Irish, though they...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hallissy, Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2006.
Subjects:
American fiction > Irish American authors > History and criticism.
Irish Americans > Intellectual life.
Irish Americans in literature.
Roman américain > Auteurs américains d'origine irlandaise > Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine irlandaise > Vie intellectuelle.
Américains d'origine irlandaise dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature.
American fiction > Irish American authors
Irish Americans in literature
Irish Americans > Intellectual life
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : connections and separations
  • Introduction : Irish types, American patterns
  • 1. What Americans know and how they know it : song
  • 2. What Americans know and how they know it : story
  • 3. "Picture postcard Ireland" : Thomas Moran's The world I made for her
  • 4. Naming the past : Lisa Carey's The mermaids singing
  • 5. The pain of not knowing : Katharine Weber's The music lesson
  • 6. Bringing paddies over : Alice McDermott's Charming Billy
  • 7. The rage of the dying animal : Mary Gordon's The other side
  • Conclusion : the journey.

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