Reading Irish-American fiction the hyphenated self / [electronic resource] :
by Margaret Hallissy.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006.
- 211 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--Irish-American authors--History and criticism. Irish Americans--Intellectual life. Irish Americans in literature.