The Event and its terrors Ireland, famine, modernity
Stuart McLean
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- Cultural memory in the present .
Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis in anthropology, Columbia University, 1999 Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-218) and index
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)
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)
0804744408 pbk. 0804744394 cloth
Famines--History--Historiography--Ireland--19th century Historiography--Ireland