| From the Sin-E Cafe to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish Contributor(s): Wall, Eamonn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299167240 ISBN-13: 9780299167240 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish". In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-e Cafe in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and Americans of Irish heritage, locating them within a literary and historical context. But this is also a deeply personal book in which Wall wrestles with his own identity as an Irishman living in America, from the streets of Manhattan to the western hills of Nebraska. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 99006590 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.02" W x 8.99" (0.49 lbs) 154 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
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| Publisher Description: Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time. He indicates how we, as modern readers, might realize the promethean metaphors central to the poet's intensely sculpted life. The Pushkin who emerges from Bethea's portrait is one who, long unknown to English-language readers, closely resembles the original both psychologically and artistically. |