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A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nation
From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts?
Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street, the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change.
The price of "Going To My Father'S House (Hardcover Book)" at Downtown Comics in Castleton is USD $34.95.
The publisher of "Going To My Father'S House (Hardcover Book)" is Verso Books.
The genres of "Going To My Father'S House (Hardcover Book)" are Biography & Autobiography - Political, Political Science - Commentary & Opinion, and Political Science - History & Theory.
"Going To My Father'S House (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "Going To My Father'S House (Hardcover Book)" is Patrick Joyce.