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Ireland, migration and return migration : the 'returned Yank' in the cultural imagination, 1952 to the present
- Title
- Ireland, migration and return migration : the 'returned Yank' in the cultural imagination, 1952 to the present / Sinéad Moynihan.
- Author
- Moynihan, Sinéad
- Publication
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- vii, 274 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
- Summary
- Drawing on historical, literary and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the "Returned Yank" in the cultural imagination, taking as its point of departure the most exhaustively discussed Returned Yank narrative, The Quiet Man (dir. John Ford, 1952). Often dismissed as a figure that embodies the sentimentality and nostalgia of Irish America writ large, this study argues that the Returned Yank's role in the Irish cultural imagination is much more varied and complex than this simplistic construction allows. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, s/he has been widely discussed in broadcast and print media, and depicted in plays, novels, short stories and films. The imagined figure of the Returned Yank has been the driving impetus behind some of Ireland's most well-known touristic endeavours and festivals. In the form of U.S. Presidential visits, s/he has repeatedly been the catalyst for questions surrounding Irish identity. Most significantly, s/he has been mobilised as an arbiter in one of the most important debates in post-Independence Ireland: should Ireland remain a "traditional" society or should it seek to modernise? His/her repeated appearances in Irish literature and culture after 1952 - in remarkably heterogeneous, often very sophisticated ways - refute claims of the "aesthetic caution" of Irish writers, dramatists and filmmakers responding to the tradition/modernity debate.
- Series Statement
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 73
- Uniform Title
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 73.
- Alternative Title
- 'Returned Yank' in the cultural imagination, 1952 to the present
- Subject
- Quiet man (Motion picture)
- Irish Americans in literature
- Irish Americans in popular culture
- American literature > Irish influences
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Emigration and immigration in popular culture
- Emigration and immigration
- Ireland > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century
- Ireland > Emigration and immigration > History > 21st century
- Ireland
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-2508
- ISBN
- 9781786941800
- 1786941805
- 9781786949707 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1104800878
- Author
- Moynihan, Sinéad, author.
- Title
- Ireland, migration and return migration : the 'returned Yank' in the cultural imagination, 1952 to the present / Sinéad Moynihan.
- Publisher
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 73Liverpool English texts and studies ; 73.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781786949707
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-2508