Ireland, Migration And Return Migration: The "Returned Yank" In The Cultural Imagination, 1952 To Present - 9781786941800

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.

• | By (Author): Sinead Moynihan
• | Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 08, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1786941805
• | ISBN-13: 9781786941800