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    <title>Reading Irish-American fiction</title>
    <subTitle>the hyphenated self</subTitle>
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    <publisher>Palgrave Macmillan</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2006</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface : connections and separations -- Introduction : Irish types, American patterns -- 1. What Americans know and how they know it : song -- 2. What Americans know and how they know it : story -- 3. "Picture postcard Ireland" : Thomas Moran's The world I made for her -- 4. Naming the past : Lisa Carey's The mermaids singing -- 5. The pain of not knowing : Katharine Weber's The music lesson -- 6. Bringing paddies over : Alice McDermott's Charming Billy -- 7. The rage of the dying animal : Mary Gordon's The other side -- Conclusion : the journey.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Margaret Hallissy.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>American fiction</topic>
    <topic>Irish-American authors</topic>
    <topic>History and criticism</topic>
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    <topic>Irish Americans</topic>
    <topic>Intellectual life</topic>
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