Name: crossing highbridge,a memoir of irish america (en Inglés)
SKU: 1611338
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Author: Waters, Maureen
ISBN: 9780815606826

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crossing highbridge,a memoir of irish america (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Maureen Waters

Editorial

Syracuse University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

149

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.7x16x1.8 cm

Peso

0.42 kg.

ISBN

0815606826

ISBN13

9780815606826

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Biografía: general
Memorias
Estudios de género: mujeres y chicas
Historia de américa
Historia local

crossing highbridge,a memoir of irish america (en Inglés)

Maureen Waters (Autor) · Syracuse University Press · Tapa Dura

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The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen Waters grew up the "Bronx Irish" daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Crossing Highbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage. Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to "the other side"--by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impressed on her. Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars andcuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century. She marr ed outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.