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Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England : myth, memory and emotional adaption /
This book, the first to apply Popular Memory Theory to the Irish Diaspora, opens new lines of critical enquiry within scholarship on the Irish in modern Britain. Combining innovative use of migrant life histories with cultural representations of the post-war Irish experience, it interrogates the int...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester [UK] :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- List of figures ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of abbreviations ; ; Introduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war England and the 'composure' of migrant subjectivities; 1 Narratives of exit: the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in post-war Ireland, 1945-69; 2 In-between places: liminality and the dis/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city; 3 Lives in re/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men's narratives of work in the British construction industry; 4 Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England; 5 Nothing but the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant memory; Conclusion: Myth, memory and minority history; ; Appendix: Interviews ; Select bibliography ; Index