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Irishness in North American Women s Writing
Transatlantic Affinities
It develops new readings of six North American women writers within Irish-American and Irish-Canadian contexts
It contributes to the emerging field of Irish Transatlantic Studies see more benefits
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This book examines ideas of Irishness in the writing of Mary McCarthy, Maeve Brennan, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, and Emma Donoghue. Individual chapters engage in detail with questions central to the social or literary history of Irish women in North America and pay special attention to the following: discourses of Irish femininity in twentieth-century American and Canadian literature; mythologies of Irishness in an American and Canadian context; transatlantic literary exchanges and the influence of canonical Irish