Description
About the Author
Sinead Moynihan is Associate Professor in American and Atlantic Literatures at the University of Exeter. She is author of "Other People's Diasporas": Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture (2013) and Passing into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing (2010).
Reviews
'An incisive and impressively contextualized study of the trope of "the Returned Yank" in Irish culture. This fascinating and outstanding book will make an invaluable and timely contribution to Irish and American Studies, as well as to diaspora studies more widely.'
Dr Tony Murray, Director of the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University
'Extremely commendable in its scope and ambition, this book offers a valuable contribution to Irish cultural studies, in particular to research on the complex relationship between "tradition" and "modernity" in Irish culture. It fills a genuine gap in existing scholarship, and its sustained analysis across several decades and multiple forms of representation is especially impressive, as it allows the reader to track a complex and historically-informed narrative arc for the "Returned Yank" figure.'
Dr Stephanie Rains, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University
Reviews 'Sinead Moynihan's Ireland, Migration and Return Migration is an impressively wide-ranging and insightful study of migration to and from the United States in Irish literature, film, and culture. This book pushes beyond simplistic models of deracination, exile or the emigre, to think about the recurring nature of migration and return migration, and raises questions about decolonization, neo-colonialism, and the nature of "modern" Ireland both before and after the Celtic Tiger. Moynihan's work interrogates gendered mythologies about maternity and return, and similarly reworks notions of return in relation to literary forebears and genres. She combines an impressive range of cultural sources with nuanced close readings in an important and timely contribution to Irish Studies.'
2019 ACIS Michael J. Durkan Prize
Book Information
ISBN 9781800854758
Author Sinead Moynihan
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press