The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women's Writing (1st ed. 2024) (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
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- Synopsis
- The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women’s Writing considers the works of eleven North American female authors who wrote for or descended from the Irish Famine generation: Anna Dorsey, Christine Faber, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mother Jones, Kate Kennedy, Margaret Dixon McDougall, Mary Meaney, Alice Nolan, Fanny Parnell, Mary Anne Sadlier, and Elizabeth Hely Walshe. This collection examines the ways the writings of these women contributed significantly to the construction of Irish North-American identities, and played a crucial role in the dissemination of Famine memories transgenerationally as well as transnationally. The included annotated excerpts from these women writers’ works and the accompanying essays by prominent international scholars offer insights on the sociopolitical position of the Irish in North America, their connections with the homeland, women’s activities in transnational (often Catholic) publishing networks and women writers’ mediation of Ireland’s cultural heritage. Furthermore, the volume illustrates the generic variety of Irish American women’s writing of the Famine generation, which comprises political treatises, novels, short stories and poetry, and bears witness to these female authors’ profound engagement with political and social issues, such as the conditions of the poor and woman’s vote.
- Copyright:
- 2024
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- ISBN-13:
- 9783031407918
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783031407901
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 01/25/24
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- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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- Edited by:
- Marguérite Corporaal
- Edited by:
- Jason King
- Edited by:
- Peter D. O’Neill
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