From the Bookshelves: The Black and Green Atlantic Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas

For centuries, African and Irish people have traversed the Atlantic, as slaves, servants, migrants, exiles, political organizers and cultural workers. Their experiences intersected; their cultures influenced one another. The essays in The Black and Green Atlantic Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas explore the connections that have defined the ‘Black and Green Atlantic’ in culture, politics, race and labour.

About the Authors

PETER D. O’NEILL is completing his doctorate in English at the University of Southern California, USA. His dissertation is entitled The Racial State and the Transatlantic Famine Irish. His work has appeared in journals such as Foilsi, The Internationalist Review of Irish Culture, and the Journal of American Studies.

DAVID LLOYD is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His books include Ireland After History (1999) and Irish Times: Temporalities of Irish Modernity (2008). He has co-published several other books, including Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997) and The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with Lisa Lowe.

Table of Contents

Introduction–P.O’Neill &–D.Lloyd PART 1: RACE, THE STATE AND THE GREEN ATLANTIC

Black Irish, Irish Whiteness and Atlantic State Formation–D.Lloyd Fenian

Fever: CircumAtlantic Insurgency and the Modern State–A.Martin Green

Presbyterians, Black Irish and Some Literary Consequences–N.Rodgers

PART 2: PERFORMING RACE

Ventriloquizing Blackness: Eugene ONeill and Irish-American Racial Performance–C.Robinson

White Skin, Green Face: House of Pain and the Modern Minstrel Show–M.Quigley

Samuel Beckett and the Black Atlantic–J.T.Naito

PART 3: RACE AND GENDER

How Irish Maids are Made: Domestic Servants, Atlantic Culture, and Modernist Aesthetics–M.Howes

Laundering Gender: Chinese Men and Irish Women in Late Nineteenth-Century San Francisco–P.O’Neill

Freeing the Colonized Tongue: Representations of Linguistic Colonization in Marlene Norbese Philips and Eavan Bolands Poetry–S.Lettman

PART 4: ATLANTIC CROSSINGS

Transatlantic Fugue: Self and Solidarity in the Black and Green Atlantics–M.Malouf

Beyond the Pale: Green and Black and Cork–L.Jenkins

To redeem our colonial character: Slavery and Civilization in R. R. Maddens A Twelvemonths Residence in the West Indies–F.Sweeney

PART 5: CROSSCURRENTS

Martyrs for Contending Causes: David Walker, John Mitchel and the Limits of Liberation–T.Hale

Declaring Differently: The Transatlantic Black Political Imagination and Mid-Twentieth Century Internationalisms–A.Gulick

Embodied Perception and Utopian Movements: Connections Across the Atlantic–D.O’Hearn

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