Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	O’Leary Anish, Beth (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XVI, 201 p. 1 illus. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Series:	New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature,
Subjects:	America > Literatures. European literature. Literature > History and criticism. Literature, Modern > 20th century. Emigration and immigration. North American Literature. European Literature. Literary History. Twentieth-Century Literature. Human Migration.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83194-3
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Memory, History, and the Shaping of the Irish American Present
Chapter 2 On why this book should and should not begin with Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Chapter 3 Edward McSorley and Irish America's Coming of Age
Chapter 4 A Community Deformed in Mary Doyle Curran's The Parish and the Hill
Chapter 5 “Good Catholic Radicals”: Harry Sylvester's Moon Gaffney and Irish American Catholicism at Mid-Century
Chapter 6 How the Other Half Lives: Ellin Berlin’s Lace Curtain
Chapter 7 John Steinbeck’s Irish Grandfather: Samuel Hamilton, East of Eden, and Post World War II Irish American Fiction
Chapter 8 The Last Hurrah for a Way of Life: The Private Side of Edwin O’Connor’s Famous Novel
Conclusion - Communities in Jeopardy.

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