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 TransatlanticFugue: 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