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This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants' 'recompose' the self in response to the emotional challenges migration
Sommario
Introduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war England and the 'composure' of migrant subjectivities
1 Narratives of exit: the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in post-war Ireland, 1945-69
2 In-between places: liminality and the dis/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city
3 Lives in re/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men's narratives of work in the British construction industry
4 Falling away from the Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England
5 Nothing but the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant memory
Conclusion: Myth, memory and minority history
Appendix: Interviews
Select bibliography
Index
Info autore
Barry Hazley is Derby Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and AHRC Research Fellow in History at the University of Manchester
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This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants’ ‘recompose’ the self in response to the emotional challenges migration -- .
