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Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The "Returned Yank" in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to Present

Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The "Returned Yank" in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to Present

Moynihan, Sinéad

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Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Book 73

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyIrish History

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ISBN10: 1786941805
ISBN13: 9781786941800
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Mar 8 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Drawing on historical, literary and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the Returned Yank in the cultural imagination, taking as its point of departure the most exhaustively discussed Returned Yank narrative, The Quiet Man (dir. John Ford, 1952). Often dismissed as a figure that embodies the sentimentality and nostalgia of Irish America writ large, this study argues that the Returned Yank's role in the Irish cultural imagination is much more varied and complex than this simplistic construction allows. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, s/he has been widely discussed in broadcast and print media, and depicted in plays, novels, short stories and films. The imagined figure of the Returned Yank has been the driving impetus behind some of Ireland's most well-known touristic endeavours and festivals. In the form of U.S. Presidential visits, s/he has repeatedly been the catalyst for questions surrounding Irish identity. Most significantly, s/he has been mobilised as an arbiter in one of the most important debates in post-Independence Ireland: should Ireland remain a traditional society or should it seek to modernise? His/her repeated appearances in Irish literature and culture after 1952 - in remarkably heterogeneous, often very sophisticated ways - refute claims of the aesthetic caution of Irish writers, dramatists and filmmakers responding to the tradition/modernity debate.

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