Abstract

This essay explores the stage and screen adaptations of Owen Kildare's immigrant redemption memoir, My Mamie Rose, Published as autobiography in 1903, it was dramatized in 1908 and filmed on three separate occasions between 1911 and 1924, most notably by Raoul Walsh in 1915 as Regeneration. The author aligns Kildare's narrative with contextual discourses on masculinity, racial purity and transformative identity in assessing its significance as a cinematic representation of Irish-American masculinity in the early feature film period.

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