Reading Irish-American Fiction
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Reading Irish-American Fiction

The Hyphenated Self

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reading Irish-American Fiction

The Hyphenated Self

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Reading Irish-American Fiction
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 What Americans Know and How They Know It: Song
  8. 2 What Americans Know and How They Know It: Story
  9. 3 “Picture Postcard Ireland”: Thomas Moran’s The World I Made for Her
  10. 6 Naming the Past: Lisa Carey’s The Mermaids Singing
  11. 5 The Pain of Not Knowing: Katharine Weber’s The Music Lesson
  12. 6 Bringing Paddies Over: Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy
  13. 7 The Rage of the Dying Animal: Mary Gordon’s The Other Side
  14. The Journey
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index