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The Irish and the imagination of race : White supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century
- Title
- The Irish and the imagination of race : White supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century / Patrick R. O'Malley.
- Author
- O'Malley, Patrick R.
- Publication
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- x, 311 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book analyzes the role of Irishness in the nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States. Centering the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, it asks how the seemingly liberationist politics of many mid-nineteenth-century Irish nationalist writers could fail to comprehend the ethical necessity of opposing both race-based chattel enslavement in the United States and the structures of white supremacy that underwrote and ultimately outlived it. Many of the writers O'Malley focuses on drew specifically upon the image of Black suffering as support for their arguments for Irish political enfranchisement; yet, in doing so, they frequently fell into what he identifies as a failure of translation, a misrepresentation of the fundamental differences between Irish and Black experience under the regimes of white supremacy"--
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- White supremacy movements > Influence
- Racism > United States > Influence
- Slavery > United States > Influence
- Irish > United States > History > 19th century
- Nationalism > Ireland > History > 19th century
- Prejudices in literature
- Racism
- White supremacy movements
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Slavery
- Irish
- Nationalism
- English literature > Irish authors
- English literature
- United States > History > Influence. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States
- United States > Confederate States of America
- Ireland
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Nineteenth-century Irishness and the construction of race -- The Gothic Palimpsest of Black and Irish histories -- From Irish Bardicism to the white nationalist verse epic -- Irish American Whiteness in The Garies and their Friends -- John Mitchel and the polemic of white grievance -- Performing sympathy in The Octoroon -- Coda: The Irish national tale and confederate nostalgia.
- Call Number
- JFE 24-510
- ISBN
- 9780813950570
- 0813950570
- 9780813950563
- 0813950562
- 9780813950556 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023034120
- OCLC
- 1382919363
- Author
- O'Malley, Patrick R., author.
- Title
- The Irish and the imagination of race : White supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century / Patrick R. O'Malley.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: O'Malley, Patrick R. Irish and the imagination of race Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2023 9780813950556 (DLC) 2023034121
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-510