Ireland, Migration and Return Migration The Returned Yank in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to Present

Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the "Returned Yank" in the cultural imagination. Taking as its point of departure The Quiet Man (1952), it provides a cultural history that charts the ways in which the Returned Yank indexes a set of recurring anxieties in Ireland from 1952 to the present.

A propos de l'auteur

Sinéad Moynihan is Associate Professor in American and Atlantic Literatures at the University of Exeter. She is author of "Other People's Diasporas" Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture (2013) and Passing into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing (2010).

Résumé

Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the “Returned Yank” in the cultural imagination. Taking as its point of departure The Quiet Man (1952), it provides a cultural history that charts the ways in which the Returned Yank indexes a set of recurring anxieties in Ireland from 1952 to the present.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sinead Moynihan, Sinéad Moynihan
• Edition: Liverpool University Press
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre Relié
• Date de parution: 31.05.2019
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Théâtre, ballet; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques
• EAN: 9781786941800
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-180-0
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Thème: Liverpool English Texts and St; Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Catégories: Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung; Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000