The Best Are Leaving : Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture PDF
by Clair (Queen Mary University of London) Wills
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Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture.
Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literature, journalism, drama, literary fiction, and popular literature and film.
This book, written by a leading critic of Irish literature and culture, discusses topics such as the loss of the finest people from rural Ireland and the destruction of traditional communities; the anxieties of women emigrants and their desire for the benefits of modern consumer society; the stereotype of the drunken Irishman; the charming and authentic country Irish in the city; and the ambiguous meanings of Irish Catholicism in England, which was viewed as both a threatening and civilising force.
Wills explores this theme of emigration through writers as diverse as M.
J. Molloy, John B. Keane, Tom Murphy, and Edna O'Brien.
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- Pages:8 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/01/2015
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- ISBN:9781316121436
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:8 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/01/2015
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- ISBN:9781316121436