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. These essaysexplore the connections that have defined the 'Black and Green Atlantic' in culture, politics, race and labour. INDICE: - List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors- 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 O'Neill and Irish-American Racial Performance; C.Robinson - White Skin, Green Face: House of Pain andthe 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 Philip's and Eavan Boland's 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. Madden's A Twelvemonth's 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 - Works Cited - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22818-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 06/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés