{"product_id":"9783030831967","title":"Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK : Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature) (1st ed. 2021. 2022. xvi, 201 S. XVI, 201 p. 1 illus. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish American Fiction from World War II to JFK\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors who brought the communities of their youth to life on the page.  With few exceptions, the novels studied here are lesser-known works, with little written about them to date. Mining these tremendous resources for the details of Irish American life, this book looks back to the beginning of the twentieth century, when the authors' immigrant grandparents were central to their communities.  It also points forward to the twenty-first century, as the concerns these authors had for the future of Irish America have become a legacy we must grapple with in the present.\n\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Introduction: Memory, History, and the Shaping of the Irish American Present.- Chapter 2 On why this book should and should not begin with Betty Smith's \u003ci\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn.- \u003c\/i\u003eChapter 3 Edward McSorley and Irish America's Coming of Age.- Chapter 4 A Community Deformed in Mary Doyle Curran's \u003ci\u003eThe Parish and the Hill.- \u003c\/i\u003eChapter 5 \"Good Catholic Radicals\": Harry Sylvester's \u003ci\u003eMoon Gaffney\u003c\/i\u003e and Irish American Catholicism at Mid-Century.- Chapter 6 How the Other Half Lives: Ellin Berlin's \u003ci\u003eLace Curtain.- \u003c\/i\u003eChapter 7 John Steinbeck's Irish Grandfather: Samuel Hamilton, \u003ci\u003eEast of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e, and Post World War II Irish American Fiction.- Chapter 8 \u003ci\u003eThe Last Hurrah \u003c\/i\u003efor a Way of Life: The Private Side of Edwin O'Connor's Famous Novel.- Conclusion - Communities in Jeopardy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeth O'Leary Anish is a Professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island, USA. She successfully defended her dissertation, \u003ci\u003eWriting Irish America: Communal Memory and the Narrative of Nation in Diaspora, \u003c\/i\u003eat the University of Rhode Island.  She has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Hibernia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and is an active member of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Her research interests are in American immigrant literature, contemporary Irish literature, and Irish American fiction and memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841310241003,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":219.72,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9783030831967","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}