Reading Irish-American fiction [electronic resource] : the hyphenated self / by Margaret Hallissy.
By: Hallissy, Margaret.
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Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006Description: 211 p.Subject(s): American fiction -- Irish-American authors -- History and criticism | Irish Americans -- Intellectual life | Irish Americans in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813.009/89165 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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