In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected
subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic
heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers
from the U.S. South. Giemza offers a defining new view of Irish
American authors and their interrelationships within both
transatlantic and ethnic regional contexts. From the first Irish
American novel, published in Winchester, Virginia, in 1817, Giemza
investigates a cast of nineteenth-century writers contending with
the turbulence of their time, writers influenced by both American
and Irish revolutions. Additionally, he considers dramatists and
propagandists of the Civil War and Lost Cause memoirists who
emerged in its wake. Some familiar names reemerge in an Irish
context, including Joel Chandler Harris, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate
(O'Flaherty) Chopin. Giemza also examines the works of
twentieth-century southern Irish writers, such as Margaret
Mitchell, John Kennedy Toole, Flannery O'Connor, Pat Conroy, Anne
Rice, Valerie Sayers, and Cormac McCarthy. For each author, Giemza
traces the influences of Catholicism as it shaped both faith and
ethnic identity, pointing to shared sensibilities and
contradictions. Flannery O'Connor, for example, resisted
identification as an Irish American, while Cormac McCarthy,
described by some as ""anti-Catholic,"" continues a dialogue with
the Church from which he distanced himself. Giemza draws on many
never-before-seen documents, including authorized material from the
correspondence of Cormac McCarthy, interviews from the Irish
community of Flannery O'Connor's native Savannah, Georgia, and
Giemza's own correspondence with writers such as Valerie Sayers and
Anne Rice. This lively literary history prompts a new understanding
of how the Irish in the region helped invent a regional mythos, an
enduring literature, and a national image.
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