- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 417 p., [48] p. of plates) : ill., ports.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Russian literature and theory
- Studies of the Harriman Institute
- Uniform Title
- Under the sky of my Africa (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Was Pushkin black and does it matter? / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Ludmilla A. Trigos -- A.P. Gannibal : on the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin's great-grandfather / N.K. Teletova -- Pushkin on his African heritage : publications during his lifetime / J. Thomas Shaw -- Ruslan and Ludmila : Pushkin's anxiety of blackness / Richard F. Gustafson -- How black was Pushkin? : otherness and self-creation / David M. Bethea -- The telltale black baby, or, Why Pushkin began The blackamoor of Peter the Great but didn't finish it / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- Making a true image : blackness and Pushkin portraits / Richard C. Borden -- Pushkin and Othello / Catherine O'Neil -- The Pushkin of opportunity in the Harlem renaissance / Olga P. Hasty -- "Bound by blood to the race" : Pushkin in African American context / Anne Lounsbery -- Tsvetaeva's "blackest of black" (naicherneishii) Pushkin / Liza Knapp -- "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" : Paul Robeson and the 1949 Pushkin jubilee / Alexandar Mihailovic -- Artur Vincent Lourié's The blackamoor of Peter the Great : Pushkin's exotic ancestor as twentieth-century opera / Caryl Emerson.
- LCCN
- 2005016715
- OCLC
- ssj0000264074
- Title
Under the sky of my Africa [electronic resource] : Alexander Pushkin and blackness / edited by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, and Ludmilla A. Trigos ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Imprint
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2006.
- Series
Studies in Russian literature and theory
Studies of the Harriman Institute
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer.
Svobodny, Nicole.
Trigos, Ludmilla A.