| The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction Contributor(s): Fanning, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813109701 ISBN-13: 9780813109701 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1999 Annotation: Samuels Beckett's largest single publication was the nineteen translations he did for Nancy Cunard's Negro: An Anthology (1934). Beckett has traditionally been viewed as an apolitical (post)modernist rather than as a willing and major participant in Negro's racial, political, and aesthetic agenda. But, as Alan Friedman demonstrates, Beckett's participation i Negro resulted from his deep and abiding friendship with Cunard believed racial justice and equality could be achieved only through communism, "black" and "red" were inextricably linked in her vision. Beckett in Black and Red radically revalues both Cunard and Negro and reconceives Beckett as profoundly engaged with major historical and intellectual concerns of the twentieth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Historical Events |
| Dewey: 813.009 |
| LCCN: 99012648 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6" W x 9" (1.48 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience. |