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The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture Wills, Clair (Queen Mary University of London)
The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture
Wills, Clair (Queen Mary University of London)
Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain in post-war Europe. It analyses stereotypes of the Irish across a range of discourses, including official documents; sociological texts; documentary fiction and memoir; and Irish realist fiction, drama, and film.
220 pages, 8 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 2, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107680876 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 220 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 228 × 18 mm · 378 g |
| Language | English |