Irish-American Fiction.

Catalog description

Examines the theme of immigration and that of assimilation in a particular ethnic group: Irish-Americans. Through an examination of the literature, we find an ethnicity that is uneasily part of the American fabric and one defined to a large degree by the culture they either abandoned or were forced to abandon. Representative writers include Eugene O'Neill, Alice McDermott, William Kenney, Mary Gordon, John Gregory Dunne.