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Mothers of Ireland : Poems /
"Violent historical and cultural forces shaped the lives of Julie Kane's Irish and Irish-American women ancestors: famine, genocide, warfare, poverty, emigration, repressive religion, ethnic prejudice, and alcoholism. In Mothers of Ireland, her new collection of poems, Kane explores how th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "Violent historical and cultural forces shaped the lives of Julie Kane's Irish and Irish-American women ancestors: famine, genocide, warfare, poverty, emigration, repressive religion, ethnic prejudice, and alcoholism. In Mothers of Ireland, her new collection of poems, Kane explores how the legacy of personal trauma gets passed down to subsequent generations, with a focus on mothers and daughters and their histories of pain and endurance. Even at their very darkest, however, these haunting poems flash with resilient Irish wit"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (71 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807173145 |