Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England : myth, memory and emotional adaption /
This book, the first to apply Popular Memory Theory to the Irish Diaspora, opens new lines of critical enquiry within scholarship on the Irish in modern Britain. Combining innovative use of migrant life histories with cultural representations of the postwar Irish experience, it interrogates the inte...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | This book, the first to apply Popular Memory Theory to the Irish Diaspora, opens new lines of critical enquiry within scholarship on the Irish in modern Britain. Combining innovative use of migrant life histories with cultural representations of the postwar Irish experience, it interrogates the interaction between lived experience, personal memory and cultural myth to further understanding of the work of memory in the production of migrant subjectivities. Shedding new light on the collective fantasies of postwar migrants, as well as the personal dynamics of subjective change, 'Life history' illuminates how migrants' 'recompose' the self in response to the transition between cultures and places. This book will be essential reading for academics and students researching modern British and Irish social and cultural history, ethnic and migration studies, oral history and memory studies, cultural studies and human geography. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 253 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1526128004 9781526128003 |