Description
| Product ID: | 9781786941800 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Liverpool English Texts and Studies |
| Title: | Ireland, Migration and Return Migration |
| Subtitle: | The "Returned Yank" in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present |
| Authors: | Author: Sinead Moynihan |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Migration, immigration and emigration, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ireland, USA, English, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the "Returned Yank" 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Liverpool University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Liverpool University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-03-08 |
