Ireland de Beaumont, Gustave; Taylor, W. C; Garvin, Tom ...
2006, 2006-01-01, 20060101
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Beaumont chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. This rediscovered masterpiece includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This ...volume also presents Beaumont's impassioned preface in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine.
Preface p. ix -- Acknowledgments p. xiii -- Ch. 1 Introduction : Transgressing Self and Voice - Contemporary Fiction and the Death of the Narrator p. 1 -- Ch. 2 "At First You Feel a Bit Lost" : The ...Varieties of Second Person Narration p. 17 -- Ch. 3 Class and Consciousness : "We" Narration from Conrad to Postcolonial Fiction p. 37 -- Ch. 4 I, etcetera : Multiperson Narration and the Range of Contemporary Narrators p. 61 -- Ch. 5 Three Extreme Forms of Narration and a Note on Postmodern Unreliability p. 79 -- Ch. 6 Unnatural Narration in Contemporary Drama p. 106
In the early 1990s, at the watershed age of thirty, Marilyn Abildskov decided she needed to start over. She accepted an offer to move from Utah to Matsumoto, Japan, to teach English to junior high ...school students. "All I knew is that I had to get away and when I stared at my name on the Japanese contract, the squiggles of katakana, my name typed in English sturdily beneath, I liked how it looked. As if it-as if I-were translated, transformed, emerging now as someone new."The Men in My Countryis the story of an American woman living and loving in Japan. Satisfied at first to observe her exotic surroundings, the woman falls in love with the place, with the light, with the curve of a river, with the smell of bonfires during obon, with blue and white porcelain dishes, with pencil boxes, and with small origami birds. Later, struggling for a deeper connection-"I wanted the country under my skin"-Abildskov meets the three men who will be part of her transformation and the one man with whom she will fall deeply in love.A travel memoir offering an artful depiction of a very real place,The Men in My Countryalso covers the terrain of a complex emotional journey, tracing a geography of the heart, showing how we move to be moved, how in losing ourselves in a foreign place we can become dangerously-and gloriously-undone.
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Knowledge and Colonialism examines writings and drawings of eighteenth-century scientific travellers in South Africa against the background of administrative and commercial discourses. It is argued ...that these travellers benefited more from their relationship with the colonial order than the other way around.
The twentieth century saw significant increases in both life expectancy and retirement rates-changes that have had dramatic impacts on nearly every aspect of society and the economy. Forecasting ...future trends in health and retirement rates, as we must do now, requires investigation of such long-term trends and their causes. To that end, this book draws on new data-an extensive longitudinal survey of Union Army veterans born between 1820 and 1850-to examine the factors that affected health and labor force participation in nineteenth-century America. Contributors consider the impacts of a variety of conditions-including social class, wealth, occupation, family, and community-on the morbidity and mortality of the group. The papers investigate and address a number of special topics, including the influence of previous exposure to infectious disease, migration, and community factors such as lead in water mains. They also analyze the roles of income, health, and social class in retirement decisions, paying particular attention to the social context of disability. Economists and historians who specialize in demography or labor, as well as those who study public health, will welcome the unique contributions offered by this book, which offers a clearer view than ever before of the workings and complexities of life, death, and labor during the nineteenth century.
Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the ...Atlantic. The human toll of “Black ‘47,” the worst year of the famine, is notorious, but the lives of the emigrants themselves have remained largely hidden, untold because of their previous obscurity and deep poverty. In The End of Hidden Ireland, Scally brings their lives to light. Focusing on the townland of Ballykilcline in Roscommon, Scally offers a richly detailed portrait of Irish rural life on the eve of the catastrophe. From their internal lives and values, to their violent conflict with the English Crown, from rent strikes to the potato blight, he takes the emigrants on each stage of their journey out of Ireland to New York. Along the way, he offers rare insights into the character and mentality of the immigrants as they arrived in America in their millions during the famine years. Hailed as a distinguished work of social history, this book also is a tale of adventure and human survival, one that does justice to a tragic generation with sympathy but without sentiment.
