LEADER 02846nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910784153203321 005 20230828234150.0 010 $a1-281-36989-6 010 $a9786611369897 010 $a1-4039-8327-5 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403983275 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342652 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283419 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234915 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283419 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247499 035 $a(PQKB)10457900 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8327-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC308073 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL308073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10135698 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136989 035 $a(OCoLC)560469871 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342652 100 $a20050713d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading Irish-American fiction$b[electronic resource] $ethe hyphenated self /$fby Margaret Hallissy 205 $a1st ed. 2006. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-349-53252-5 311 $a1-4039-7090-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface : 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xIrish American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIrish Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aIrish Americans in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xIrish American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIrish Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aIrish Americans in literature. 676 $a813.009/89165 700 $aHallissy$b Margaret$01474328 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784153203321 996 $aReading Irish-American fiction$93841615 997 $aUNINA