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Reading Irish-American Fiction

The Hyphenated Self

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  • © 2006

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  1. Margaret Hallissy
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Preface

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    Pages 1-18

  3. Introduction

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    Pages 19-32

  4. What Americans Know and How They Know It: Song

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    Pages 33-46

  5. What Americans Know and How They Know It: Story

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    Pages 47-59

  6. “Picture Postcard Ireland”: Thomas Moran’s The World I Made for Her

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    Pages 61-81

  7. Naming the Past: Lisa Carey’s The Mermaids Singing

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    Pages 83-104

  8. The Pain of Not Knowing: Katharine Weber’s The Music Lesson

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    Pages 105-125

  9. Bringing Paddies Over: Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy

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    Pages 127-147

  10. The Rage of the Dying Animal: Mary Gordon’s The Other Side

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    Pages 149-172

  11. The Journey

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    Pages 173-181

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 183-211
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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.

About the author

MARGARET HALLISSY is Professor of English, Long Island University, USA.

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