Other People's Diasporas: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish American Culture - Hardcover

by Sinéad Moynihan (Author)

With the economic rise of the "Celtic Tiger" in the 1990s, Irish culture was deeply impacted by a concurrent rise in immigration. A nation tending to see itself as a land of emigrants suddenly saw waves of newcomers. In this book, Moynihan takes as her central question a formulation by sociologist Steve Garner: "What happens when other people's diasporas converge on the homeland of diasporic people?" Approaching the question from a cultural rather than a sociological vantage point, Moynihan delves into fiction, drama, comedy, and cinema since 1998 to examine the various representations of and insights into race relations.

Author Biography

Sinéad Moynihan is Lecturer and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham. Along with articles and book chapters, she is the author of Passing into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing.