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

List of Figures ix

Acknowledgments x

Notes on Contributors xi

Introduction Peter D. O'Neill David Lloyd xv

Part I Race, the State and the Green Atlantic 1

1 Black Irish, Irish Whiteness and Atlantic State Formation David Lloyd 3

2 Fenian Fever: Circum-Atlantic Insurgency and the Modern State Amy E. Martin 20

3 Green Presbyterians, Black Irish and Some Literary Consequences Nini Rodgers 33

Part II Performing Race 47

4 Ventriloquizing Blackness: Eugene O'Neill and Irish-American Racial Performance Cedric J. Robinson 49

5 White Skin, Green Face: House of Pain and the Modern Minstrel Show Mark Quigley 64

6 Samuel Beckett and the Black Atlantic Jonathan Tadashi Naito 81

Part III Race and Gender 95

7 How Irish Maids Are Made: Domestic Servants, Atlantic Culture, and Modernist Aesthetics Marjorie Howes 97

8 Laundering Gender: Chinese Men and Irish Women in Late Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Peter D. O'Neill 113

9 Freeing the Colonized Tongue: Representations of Linguistic Colonization in Marlene Nourbese Philip's and Eavan Boland's Poetry Stacy J. Lettman 131

Part IV Atlantic Crossings 147

10 Transatlantic Fugue: Self and Solidarity in the Black and Green Atlantics Michael Malouf 149

11 Beyond the Pale: Green and Black and Cork Lee M. Jenkins 165

12 "To Redeem Our Colonial Character": Slavery and Civilization in R. R. Madden's A Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies Fionnghuala Sweeney 178

Part V Cross-Currents 195

13 Martyrs for Contending Causes: John Mitchel, David Walker, and the Limits of Liberation Anthony R. Hale 197

14 Declaring Differently: C. L. R. James, International Law, and MidTwentieth-Century Internationalisms Anne W. Gulick 213

15 Embodied Perception and Utopian Movements: Connections across the Atlantic Denis O'Heam 228

Works Cited 244

Index 260