Overview
- Addresses the concerns of Irish America in this era by studying its fiction
- Presents the reader with lesser known works
- Looks at the beginning of the 20th century, when authors' immigrant grandparents were building their communities
Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors who brought the communities of their youth to life on the page. With few exceptions, the novels studied here are lesser-known works, with little written about them to date. Mining these tremendous resources for the details of Irish American life, this book looks back to the beginning of the twentieth century, when the authors' immigrant grandparents were central to their communities. It also points forward to the twenty-first century, as the concerns these authors had for the future of Irish America have become a legacy we must grapple with in the present.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Beth O’Leary Anish is a Professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island, USA. She successfully defended her dissertation, Writing Irish America: Communal Memory and the Narrative of Nation in Diaspora, at the University of Rhode Island. She has been published in the New Hibernia Review, and is an active member of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Her research interests are in American immigrant literature, contemporary Irish literature, and Irish American fiction and memoir.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK
Book Subtitle: Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism
Authors: Beth O’Leary Anish
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83194-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83193-6Published: 03 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83196-7Published: 04 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83194-3Published: 02 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 201
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: North American Literature, European Literature, Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Migration