Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era
Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, 2014 IAAS Annual Conference
There is a famous story about Lyndon Johnson’s White House. In some versions, ... Read More...
“This is said on tiptoe”: Stanley Cavell and the Writing of Philosophy
Introduction
So we are here, knowing they are “gone to burning hell”, she with a lie on her lips, protecting him, he with her blood on him. Perhaps B... Read More...
“E Unibus Pluram”: David Foster Wallace and the Voices of a Fragmented Nation
One of the truisms of American studies seems to be the intrepid historylessness of the United States. De Tocqueville observed that democracy tended to... Read More...
“Emily Grimes is me”: Anxiety, Feminism, and the Masculinity Crisis in Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade
In 1975, Richard Yates published what was widely considered to be his worst novel. Disturbing the Peace was dismissed by critics as a career-ending di... Read More...
Real Journeys of the Imagination: Carson McCullers and Ireland
American author Carson McCullers visited Ireland three times. The first two visits were to the ancestral home of Anglo-Irish novelist and short story ... Read More...
Review: Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature
Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
A blurb on the back cover of Kevin J. Hayes’s A Journey Through Ameri... Read More...
Review: Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011.
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Review: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960
Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010.
In recent years there has been a gro... Read More...
Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870
“[…] the many genres of grief underscore the magnitude of the challenge of making death meaningful, as the unique and individual nature of loss runs up against the dominant conventions that shape memorial traditions and practices” (4).
Review: Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, eds., Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition
Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, eds., Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition. Austin: U of Texas P, 2011.
In 2001, Alma Ló... Read More...
Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction
Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.
The question of abstraction in Wallace Stevens’ poetry... Read More...
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 a... 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, Riv... Read More...
Imagined America: Walt Whitman’s Nationalism in the First Edition of Leaves of Grass
Nathanael O'Reilly
Critics often describe Walt Whitman as America’s national poet, and many have concerned themselves with how Whitman came to hold... Read More...
“If there is such a literature”: Thoughts on Teaching American Literature in Ireland / Irish Literature in America
“If there is such a literature”: Thoughts on Teaching American Literature in Ireland / Irish Literature in America
Invented Irishness: The Americanization of Irish Identity in the Works of Joseph O’Connor
Invented Irishness:
The Americanization of Irish Identity in the Works of Joseph O’Connor
“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance
“Irish by descent”? Marianne Moore’s American-Irish Inheritance
“Why Don’t You Write About America?”
Frank O'Connor's Representations of Relations between Ireland and America
Irish republicans in interwar New York
Irish republicans in interwar New York
Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years
Jazz, Identity and Sexuality in Ireland during the Interwar Years
Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)
Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)
Review: Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time
Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006)
Review: Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
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Review: Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture
Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture
Review: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
Review: Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
Issue 1 Contributors
Johannah Caitriona Duffy is an AHRC Research Fellow in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is currently w... Read More...
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