Issue 2 Editorial
Welcome to the second issue of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies.
This issue features new work from across the field of American Studies, including discussions o... Read More...
Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009)
Tributes to Emory Elliott (1942-2009): Compiled and introduced by Louise Walsh
Counterfactuals I’d Rather Not Contemplate: What if the Government Schooling Campaigns (1820s-1920s) to Americanize the Indians and to Anglicize the Irish had never taken place?
What if the Government Schooling Campaigns to Americanize the Indians and to Anglicize the Irish had never taken place?
Crooning, Catering, and Changing Careers: Anne Tyler’s and Don Cherry’s Bands (and Bonds) of Gold
Crooning, Catering, and Changing Careers: Anne Tyler’s and Don Cherry’s Bands (and Bonds) of Gold
“[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise”: Robert Lowell’s Elegiac Poetry
[R]epeat, repeat, repeat; revise, revise, revise: Robert Lowell’s Elegiac Poetry
David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline
David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline
“Tierra entre medio”: Borderlands of Knowledge in the Art of Frida Kahlo
“Tierra entre medio”: Borderlands of Knowledge in the Art of Frida Kahlo
Rubbish: Don DeLillo’s Wastelands
DeLillo’s Underworld is one of the most celebrated of all modern American novels, and perhaps the most complex. This complexity is a product of its extraordinarily precise yet oblique chronological structure, which, in its attempt to account for the entire second-half of the twentieth-century, has challenged all its readers, confused many of them, and alienated some.
“I Wish I had Some Indian Blood”: Hemingway’s Primitivism and the Ojibwa Pimadaziwin Paradigm
“I Wish I had Some Indian Blood”: Hemingway’s Primitivism and the Ojibwa Pimadaziwin Paradigm
Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary
“Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary”: Racial Representation and Artistic Experimentation in Bill “Bojangles” Robinson’s Stormy Weather Performance
Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and ‘international consciousness’
Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and ‘international consciousness’
From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years
From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years
Issue 2 Contributors
Piya Chatterjee is an Associate Professor of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Women’s Studies at University of California, Riverside. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Universi... Read More...