Crossing Highbridge,9780815606826

Crossing Highbridge

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ISBN13: 9780815606826
ISBN10: 0815606826
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Syracuse Univ Pr
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Summary

An evocative tale of coming to womanhood in the disorienting 1960s -- a girl in the world of nuns and the Holy Ghost -- but or a deeper level, this is a story of a woman who has suffered unimaginable loss and attempts to make sense of that loss by re-imagining her past and her own Irish-American heritage.

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 and cuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who

Author Biography

Maureen Waters is professor of English and acting director of Irish Studies at Queens College, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Brian Patrick
3(8)
Bronx Irish
11(88)
The Bridge
11(2)
University Avenue
13(7)
An Irish Father
20(9)
Mayo Woman
29(8)
Tribal Voices
37(5)
Nuns
42(10)
Death's Dominion
52(4)
Rockaway
56(3)
A Green World
59(6)
Songs and Hornpipes
65(4)
The Flesh and the Devil
69(6)
Intermperate Need
75(8)
Soundings
83(7)
No Celestial Signpost
90(9)
Mythologies
99(8)
Locating America
107(16)
At the Interior
123(18)
Appendix 141

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