Ireland, Migration and Return Migration - 9781800854758

Ireland, Migration and Return MigrationThe Returned Yank in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present\nAuthor(s): Sinad Moynihan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800854758, 978-1800854758\nSynopsis\nDrawing 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 Yanks 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.