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Rethinking the Irish in the American South : beyond rounders and reelers /

Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region. Indeed, the Irish fascination expresses itself in Southern context in powerful, but disparate, regis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Giemza, Bryan Albin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Bryan Albin Giemza
  • Questions of historical definition.
  • "A lengthening chain in the shape of memories": the Irish and Southern culture / William R. Ferris
  • After strange kin: further reflections on the relations between Ireland and the American South / Kieran Quinlan
  • Irish migration to the colonial South: a plea for a forgotten topic / Patrick Griffin
  • Manipulating culture: influence, reconsidered.
  • Tara, the O'Haras, and the Irish gone with the wind / Geraldine Higgins
  • Transatlantic rites of passage in the friendship and fiction of Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen / Kathryn Stelmach Artuso
  • Shared traditions: Irish and Appalachian ballads and whiskey songs / Emily Kader
  • Blacks and Celts on the Riverine frontiers: the roots of American popular music / Christopher J. Smith
  • Ideology and ambivalence.
  • Another "lost cause": the Irish in the South remember the Confederacy / David T. Gleeson
  • On the uses of slavery: the Irish in the South and Civil War rhetoric / Bryan Albin Giemza
  • Coda : Smoke 'n' guns: a preface to a poem about marginal souths, and then the poem / Conor O'Callaghan.