Barry Hazley

Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England

Myth, memory and emotional adaption

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Produktbeschreibung

This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants' 'recompose' the self in response to the emotional challenges migration

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781526128003
• ISBN-10: 1526128004
• Artikelnr.: 57478043

Autorenporträt

Barry Hazley is Derby Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and AHRC Research Fellow in History at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Myth, memory and emotional adaption: the Irish in post-war
England and the 'composure' of migrant subjectivities 1 Narratives of exit:
the public meanings of emigration and the shaping of emigrant selves in
post-war Ireland, 1945-69 2 In-between places: liminality and the
dis/composure of migrant femininities in the post-war English city 3 Lives
in re/construction: myth, memory and masculinity in Irish men's narratives
of work in the British construction industry 4 Falling away from the
Church? Negotiating religious selfhoods in post-1945 England 5 Nothing but
the same old story? Otherness, belonging and the processes of migrant
memory Conclusion: Myth, memory and minority history Appendix: Interviews
Select bibliography Index