Under the sky of my Africa
Subtitle: Alexander Pushkin and blackness
By: edited by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, and Ludmilla A. Trigos ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Contributors: Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer.; Svobodny, Nicole.; Trigos, Ludmilla A.
Series: Studies in Russian literature and theory; Studies of the Harriman Institute
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Evanston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Knowledge -- Race awareness; Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Family; Pushkin family; Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- Russia; Blacks in literature; Race awareness in literature; Russia -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Was Pushkin black and does it matter? / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Ludmilla A. Trigos; title: A.P. Gannibal : on the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin's great-grandfather / N.K. Teletova; title: Pushkin on his African heritage : publications during his lifetime / J. Thomas Shaw; title: Ruslan and Ludmila : Pushkin's anxiety of blackness / Richard F. Gustafson; title: How black was Pushkin? : otherness and self-creation / David M. Bethea; title: The telltale black baby, or, Why Pushkin began The blackamoor of Peter the Great but didn't finish it / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy; title: Making a true image : blackness and Pushkin portraits / Richard C. Borden; title: Pushkin and Othello / Catherine O'Neil; title: The Pushkin of opportunity in the Harlem renaissance / Olga P. Hasty; title: "Bound by blood to the race" : Pushkin in African American context / Anne Lounsbery; title: Tsvetaeva's "blackest of black" (naicherneishii) Pushkin / Liza Knapp; title: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" : Paul Robeson and the 1949 Pushkin jubilee / Alexandar Mihailovic; title: Artur Vincent Lourié's The blackamoor of Peter the Great : Pushkin's exotic ancestor as twentieth-century opera / Caryl Emerson.