Too smart to be sentimental : contemporary Irish American women writers / edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney ; foreword by Caledonia Kearns.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ebest, Sally Barr, McInerney, Kathleen H., Kearns, Caledonia
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008.
Subjects:	American literature > Irish American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Irish Americans in literature. Irish Americans > Ethnic identity.

Table of Contents:

Mary Mccarthy : too smart to be sentimental / Sally Barr Ebest
Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of memory" / Patricia Keefe Durso
Moments of kindness, moments of recognition : the achievement of Maeve Brennan / John M. Menaghan
"Forget about being Irish" : family, transgression, and identity in the fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan / Kathleen McInerney
Alice McDermott's narrators / Beatrice Jacobson
Tess Gallagher : a network of sympathies and distant connections / Mary Ann Ryan
"I'm your man" : Irish American masculinity in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Susana Araújo
Hardly sentimental : the "bad girls" and lonely men of Mary McGarry Morris's fiction / Patricia Gott
Blurring boundaries : Eileen Myles and the Irish American identity / Kathleen Ann Kremins
The world of Mary Gordon : writing from the "other side" / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
Jean McGarry : sojourners between dreams and realities / Amy Lee
Erin McGraw : expanding the tradition of Irish American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest.

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