Sinead Moynihan: 2 books
Other People's Diasporas
Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
With the economic rise of the "Celtic Tiger" in the 1990s, Irish culture was deeply impacted by a concurrent rise in immigration. A nation tending to see itself as a land of emigrants now saw waves of newcomers. Moynihan takes as her central question a formulation by sociologist Steve Garner: "What...
Passing into the present
Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of...