The Black and Green Atlantic

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 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 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

ANNE GULICK is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, USA ANTHONY HALE is currently affiliated with Mills College in Oakland, California, USA MARJORIE HOWES is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Irish Studies programme at Boston College, USA LEE MARGARET JENKINS teaches in the School of English, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland STACY J. LETTMAN is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Southern California, USA MICHAEL MALOUF is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, USA AMY E. MARTIN is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, USA DENIS O'HEARN is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University-SUNY, USA MARK QUIGLEY is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon, USA CEDRIC J. ROBINSON is Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA NINI RODGERS is an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast, UK FIONNGHUALA SWEENEY is Lecturer in Comparative American Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK JONATHAN TADASHI NAITO is Visiting Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA