02879nam 2200637Ia 450 991045115940332120200520144314.01-281-36989-697866113698971-4039-8327-510.1057/9781403983275(CKB)1000000000342652(SSID)ssj0000283419(PQKBManifestationID)11234915(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283419(PQKBWorkID)10247499(PQKB)10457900(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8327-5(MiAaPQ)EBC308073(Au-PeEL)EBL308073(CaPaEBR)ebr10135698(CaONFJC)MIL136989(OCoLC)560469871(EXLCZ)99100000000034265220050713d2006 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrReading Irish-American fiction[electronic resource] the hyphenated self /by Margaret Hallissy1st ed. 2006.New York Palgrave Macmillanc20061 online resource (224 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-53252-5 1-4039-7090-4 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.This book analyzes five novels, all published between 1989 and 1999, in which the main characters are 'hyphenated people': Americans who are ancestrally joined to, yet realistically separated from, the Irish. Hallissy explores why these characters think of themselves as Irish, though they have know little of Ireland or its people.American fictionIrish-American authorsHistory and criticismIrish AmericansIntellectual lifeIrish Americans in literatureElectronic books.American fictionIrish-American authorsHistory and criticism.Irish AmericansIntellectual life.Irish Americans in literature.813.009/89165Hallissy Margaret899062MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451159403321Reading Irish-American fiction2008711UNINA