Race in Irish Literature and Culture
Race in Irish Literature and Culture
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USDRace in Irish Literature and Culture provides an in-depth understanding of intersections between Irish literature, culture, and questions of race, racialization, and racism. Covering a vast historical terrain from the sixteenth century to the present, it spotlights the work of canonical, understudied, and contemporary authors in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and among diasporic Irish communities. By focusing on questions related to Black Irish identities, Irish whiteness, Irish racial sciences, postcolonial solidarities, and decolonial strategies to address racialization, the volume moves beyond the familiar frameworks of British/Irish and Catholic/Protestant binarisms and demonstrates methods for Irish Studies scholars to engage with the question of race from a contemporary perspective.
- Includes an in-depth overview of Irish literature's and culture's relationship with questions of race, racialization, and racism
- Highlights canonical, less studied, and contemporary authors, demonstrating to readers how writers across centuries engage questions about race, racism, and racialization in Irish literature and culture
- Includes interdisciplinary perspectives on the question of race in Irish Literature and Culture
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January 2024Adobe eBook Reader
9781009081757
0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: the racial imaginaries of Irish literature and culture Malcolm Sen and Julie McCormick Weng
- 1. 'Our heroic ancestors': antiquarian literature and the discourse of racial heritage Clare O'Halloran
- 2. Racializing Irish historical consciousness Guy Beiner and Oded Y. Steinberg
- 3. Race, minstrelsy, and the Irish stage: the origins and afterlives of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon Patrick Lonergan
- 4. Race and Irish women's novels in the long nineteenth century Matthew L. Reznicek
- 5. Blackface minstrelsy, Irish modernism, and the histories of Irish whiteness John Brannigan
- 6. Joyce's racial comedy Vicki Mahaffey
- 7. W. B. Yeats, the Irish free state, and the rhetoric of race suicide Julie McCormick Weng
- 8. 'Ulster's white negroes': rhetoric of race at the start of the troubles Simon Prince
- 9. Learning from Walcott: Heaney's black and green Atlantic Richard Rankin Russell
- 10. Race, Irishness, and popular culture in Australia Dianne Hall
- 11. White nationalism and Irish America: a cultural history told through works by James T. Farrell and Eugene O'Neill Peter D. O'Neill
- 12. Diasporic afterlives: an Irish-Jewish archive for Ruth Gilligan's Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan Stephen Watt
- 13. 'Dubh': poets of color and new Irish poetry Ailbhe McDaid
- 14. Split selves and double consciousness in recent Irish fiction Oona Frawley
- 15. Race, place, and the grounds of Irish geopolitics Shirley Lau Wong.
