Sinead Moynihan

Gebundenes Buch

Ireland, Migration and Return Migration

The "Returned Yank" in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present

Beschreibung

Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the â Returned Yankâ 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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Liverpool English Texts and Studies
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781786941800
• ISBN-10: 1786941805
• Artikelnr.: 54618520