Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 149 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
First edition
Ausgabe:
Reproduktion [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
081560629X
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0815606826
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9780815606291
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9780815606826
Serie:
Irish studies
Inhalt:
An evocative tale of coming to womanhood in the disorienting 1960s- a girl in the world of nuns and the Holy Ghost- but on a deeper level, this is a story of a woman who has suffered unimaginable loss and attempts to make sense of that loss by re-imagining her past and her own Irish-American heritage. The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen grew up the Bronx Irish daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Crossing Higbbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage. Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to the other side - by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impressed on her. Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars and cuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the 20th century. She left the church, married, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving story. -- Publisher description
Inhalt:
Brian Patrick -- Bronx Irish -- Mythologies -- Locating America -- At the interior.
Anmerkung:
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0815606826
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Waters, Maureen, 1939- Crossing Highbridge Syracuse, N.Y : Syracuse University Press, 2001
Sprache:
Englisch
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