Race in Irish Literature and Culture

Introduction: the racial imaginaries of Irish literature and culture Malcolm Sen and Julie McCormick Weng; 1. 'Our heroic ancestors': antiquarian literature and the discourse of racial heritage Clare O'Halloran; 2. Racializing Irish historical consciousness Guy Beiner and Oded Y. Steinberg; 3. Race, minstrelsy, and the Irish stage: the origins and afterlives of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon Patrick Lonergan; 4. Race and Irish women's novels in the long nineteenth century Matthew L. Reznicek; 5. Blackface minstrelsy, Irish modernism, and the histories of Irish whiteness John Brannigan; 6. Joyce's racial comedy Vicki Mahaffey; 7. W. B. Yeats, the Irish free state, and the rhetoric of race suicide Julie McCormick Weng; 8. 'Ulster's white negroes': rhetoric of race at the start of the troubles Simon Prince; 9. Learning from Walcott: Heaney's black and green Atlantic Richard Rankin Russell; 10. Race, Irishness, and popular culture in Australia Dianne Hall; 11. White nationalism and Irish America: a cultural history told through works by James T. Farrell and Eugene O'Neill Peter D. O'Neill; 12. Diasporic afterlives: an Irish-Jewish archive for Ruth Gilligan's Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan Stephen Watt; 13. 'Dubh': poets of color and new Irish poetry Ailbhe McDaid; 14. Split selves and double consciousness in recent Irish fiction Oona Frawley; 15. Race, place, and the grounds of Irish geopolitics Shirley Lau Wong.