Beyond the pale : the racial imaginaries of Irish literature and culture / Malcolm Sen and Julie McCormick Weng -- "Our heroic ancestors" : antiquarian literature and the discourse of racial heritage (c.1700-1800) / Clare O'Halloran -- Racializing Irish historical consciousness / Guy Beiner and Oded Y. Steinberg -- Race, minstrelsy, and the Irish stage : the origins and afterlives of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon / Patrick Lonergan -- Race and Irish women's novels in the long nineteenth century / Matthew L. Reznicek -- "Our own faces"? Blackface minstrelsy, Irish modernism, and the histories of Irish whiteness / John Brannigan -- Joyce's racial comedy / Vicki Mahaffey -- W.B. Yeats, the Irish Free State, and the rhetoric of race suicide / Julie McCormick Weng -- "Ulster's white negroes" : rhetoric of race at the start of the troubles / Simon Prince -- Learning from Walcott : Heaney's Black and green Atlantic / Richard Rankin Russell -- Race, Irishness, and popular culture in Australia / Dianne Hall -- White nationalism and Irish America : a cultural history told through works by James T. Farrell and Eugene O'Neill / Peter O'Neill -- Diasporic afterlives : an Irish-Jewish archive for Ruth Gilligan's Nine folds make a paper swan / Stephen Watt -- "Dubh" : poets of color and new Irish poetry / Ailbhe McDaid -- "Me I have to say" : split selves and double consciousness in recent Irish fiction / Oona Frawley -- Race, place, and the grounds of Irish geopolitics / Shirley Wong.
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