Reading Irish-American fiction the hyphenated self /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : connections and separations
- Introduction : Irish types, American patterns
- 1. What Americans know and how they know it : song
- 2. What Americans know and how they know it : story
- 3. "Picture postcard Ireland" : Thomas Moran's The world I made for her
- 4. Naming the past : Lisa Carey's The mermaids singing
- 5. The pain of not knowing : Katharine Weber's The music lesson
- 6. Bringing paddies over : Alice McDermott's Charming Billy
- 7. The rage of the dying animal : Mary Gordon's The other side
- Conclusion : the journey.