Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870

by Marguérite Corporaal

Book Overview

The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English, nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the development of an Irish anticolonial consciousness and in the identity formation of transatlantic Irish communities. In Relocated Memories, Corporaal challenges the persistent assumption that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815635133
• ISBN13: 9780815635130
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"