Race in Irish Literature and Culture / edited by Malcolm Sen and Julie McCormick Weng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sen, Malcolm, editor.

Weng, Julie McCormick, editor.

Series:

Cambridge themes in Irish literature and culture

Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Multiculturalism in literature.

National characteristics, Irish.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Race 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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009081559

1009081551

9781009081757

1009081756

9781009071802

1009071807