Essays from a conference held in 2006 at the University of Southern California. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Peter D. O'Neill and David Lloyd -- pt. 1. Race, the state, and the green Atlantic -- Black Irish, Irish Whiteness, and Atlantic state formation / David Lloyd -- Fenian fever : circumAtlantic insurgency and the modern state / Amy Martin -- Green Presbyterians, Black Irish, and some literary consequences / Nini Rodgers -- pt. 2. Performing race -- Ventriloquizing Blackness : Eugene O'Neill and Irish-American racial performance / Cedric Robinson -- White skin, green face : House of Pain and the modern minstrel show / Mark Quigley -- Samuel Beckett and the Black Atlantic / Jonathan Tadashi Naito -- pt. 3. Race and gender -- How Irish maids are made : domestic servants, Atlantic culture, and modernist aesthetics / Marjorie Howes -- Laundering gender : Chinese men and Irish women in late nineteenth-century San Francisco / Peter D. O'Neill -- Freeing the colonized tongue : representations of linguistic colonization in Marlene Norbese Philip's and Eavan Boland's poetry / Stacy Lettman -- pt. 4. Atlantic crossings -- Transatlantic fugue : self and solidarity in the Black and green Atlantics / Michael Malouf -- Beyond the pale : green and Black and Cork / Lee Jenkins -- "To redeem our colonial character" : slavery and civilization in R.R. Madden's A twelvemonth's residence in the West Indies / Fionnghuala Sweeney -- pt. 5. Crosscurrents -- Martyrs for contending causes : David Walker, John Mitchel, and the limits of liberation / Tony Hale -- Declaring differently : the transatlantic Black political imagination and mid-twentieth century internationalisms / Anne Gulick -- Embodied perception and utopian movements : connections across the Atlantic / Denis O'Hearn.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.