Hallissy, Margaret.

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.
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American fiction--Irish-American authors--History and criticism.
Irish Americans--Intellectual life.
Irish Americans in literature.


Electronic books.

PS153.I78 / H35 2006eb

813.009/89165