Irishness in North American Womens - E-book

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Irishness In North American Womens Writing - ENG

Transatlantic Affinities

Ellen McWilliams

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ISBN:	9781137537881
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Crítica literaria
Subtema:	Norteamericana general
Año de publicación:	2021-01-25

This book examines ideas of Irishness in the writing of Mary McCarthy, MaeveÂ Brennan, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, and Emma Donoghue.Â Individual chapters engage in detail with questions central to the social or literaryÂ history of Irish women in North America and pay special attention to the following:Â discourses of Irish femininity in twentieth-century American and CanadianÂ literature; mythologies of Irishness in an American and Canadian context;Â transatlantic literary exchanges and the influence of canonical Irish writers; andÂ ideas of exile in the work of diasporic women writers.

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