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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stuart McLean |
ISBN: | 0804744394 9780804744393 0804744408 9780804744409 |
OCLC Number: | 1105377019 |
Description: | x, 227 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Writing after the event -- This national disaster -- An Irish journey -- The most difficult people in the world -- Wild hunger -- In the theater of death -- Haunted -- Hungry ghosts and hungry women -- The coming event (before and after). |
Series Title: | Cultural memory in the present. |
Responsibility: | Stuart McLean. |
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"This impassioned work shows a particularly impressive mastery of published sources, of the well known primary sources, and extraordinarily creative work in the archives. The book is important for Irish studies, and for anthropologists and others who study great social upheaval from eye-witness accounts." -George Marcus,Rice University "This book is original, well researched, and beautifully written. It is a first rate piece of work and a great contribution to the scholarship of Ireland as well as the scholarship in a variety of fields, including anthropology, history, folklore, and literary studies... McLean reads through the accounts of the famine with an eye to the absent presence of the texts, the unexpressed horrors, the conventions of primitivism, the ambivalence of modernity, the anxieties of political economy." -Begona Aretxaga,University of Texas at Austin Read more...

