Ireland, Migration and Return Migration

Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the “Returned Yank” in the cultural imagination. Taking as its point of departure The Quiet Man (1952), it provides a cultural history that charts the ways in which the Returned Yank indexes a set of recurring anxieties in Ireland from 1952 to the present.

Bazandu-se pe perspectivele literare, istorice si culturale, aceasta carte examineaza fenomenul „intoarcerii intoarse” in imaginatia culturala. Luand ca punct de plecare Omul linistit (1952), ofera o istorie culturala care prezinta modurile in care Yankul returnat indexeaza un set de anxietati recurente in Irlanda din 1952 pana in prezent.