Issue 8 Editorial
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
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?
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...