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Under the sky of my Africa Alexander Pushkin and blackness

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.
Publication
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer.
  • Svobodny, Nicole.
  • Trigos, Ludmilla A.
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
  • Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 > Knowledge > Race awareness
  • Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 > Family
  • Pushkin family
  • Racially mixed people > Race identity > Russia
  • Black people in literature
  • Race awareness in literature
  • Russia > Ethnic relations
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.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer.
Svobodny, Nicole.
Trigos, Ludmilla A.
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