The Black and green Atlantic
Subtitle: cross-currents of the African and Irish diasporas
By: [edited by] Peter D. O'Neill, David Lloyd.
Contributors: O'Neill, Peter D., 1954-; Lloyd, David, 1955 Dec. 20-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230228184
Subjects: Irish Americans -- Race identity -- Congresses; African Americans -- Race identity -- Congresses; Irish -- Migrations -- Congresses; African diaspora -- Congresses; Internationalism -- Congresses; American literature -- Irish American authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses; United States -- Race relations -- Congresses; United States -- Relations -- Ireland -- Congresses; Ireland -- Relations -- United States -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Essays from a conference held in 2006 at the University of Southern California.

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