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Issue 8 2018-19

Issue 8 Editorial

David Coughlan
Editorials, Issue 8 2018-19
Welcome to the eighth issue of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies. After two special issues in 2017 and 2018, one guest-edited by Jennifer Daly on Marilynne Robinson... Read More...

The Long Civil Rights Narrative of Show Me a Hero

Mikkel Jensen
Articles, Issue 8 2018-19
Despite the important civil rights legal victories of the 1960s (the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968), residential segregation remains a fact of life in... Read More...

A Conflict-Laden Consensus: Is the U.S. a One-Party System in Disguise?

Olga Thierbach-McLean
Articles, Issue 8 2018-19
With Donald Trump as U.S. President and leader of the Republican Party, the ideological divide between American conservatives and liberals seems greater than ever before. From healthcare to environmental policy... Read More...

The Underground Frontier: Norman Mailer’s An American Dream

Kevin Power
Articles, Issue 8 2018-19
earning to know dread is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known dread or by sinking under it. He therefore who has learned rightly to be in drea... Read More...

“To Be Murdered”: Simulations of Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Violence in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood

Steffen Wöll
Articles, Issue 8 2018-19
“This is the Real World”: Introduction We will come to the water’s edge and lie on the grass and there will be a small, unobtrusive sign that says, THIS IS THE REAL WORLD, MUCHACHOS, AND WE ARE ALL IN IT. Ch... Read More...

Liminal Spaces and Contested Narratives in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Parámo and George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo

Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
Articles, Issue 8 2018-19
The IAAS W. A. Emmerson Lecture 2019 Both Juan Rulfo and George Saunders evoke the power of a literary text to challenge received narratives of the past and articulate new and empowering perspectives on the pr... Read More...

Review: Michael J. Lewis, City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

Jan Frohburg
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Lewis, Michael J. City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning. Princeton UP, 2016. There are rare instances when historical scholarship gains relevance in the immediate present. Michael Lewis’ book... Read More...

Review: Jesús Blanco Hidalga, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation

Jennifer Daly
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Hidalga, Jesús Blanco. Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation. Bloomsbury, 2017. Jonathan Franzen has written five novels, published a number of non-fiction collections, and i... Read More...

Review: Eileen T. Lundy and Edward J. Lundy, eds., Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East

Marcus Walsh-Führing
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Lundy, Eileen T.,  and Edward J. Lundy, editors. Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East. U of Texas P, 2016. Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East offers ... Read More...

Review: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

Tomás Dodds
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera. After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism. Routledge, 2018. On the 1st of October 2018, Linda Dwire found herself in the news when she reportedly h... Read More...

Review: Laurence W. Mazzeno and Sue Norton, eds., European Perspectives on John Updike

Daniel Picker
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Laurence W. Mazzeno and Sue Norton, eds. European Perspectives on John Updike. Camden House, 2018. European Perspectives on John Updike presents twelve chapters arranged in four parts. These are preceded by ... Read More...

Review: Joe B. Fulton, Mark Twain Under Fire

Clair A. Sheehan
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Joe B. Fulton. Mark Twain Under Fire: Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy 1851-2015. Camden House, 2018. With his latest publication, Mark Twain Under Fire, Joe B. Fulton has added significan... Read More...

Review: Samuele F. S. Pardini, In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans and Modernity

Christian O'Connell
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Samuele F. S. Pardini. In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen. Dartmouth College Press, 2017. If there is one thing that we... Read More...
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