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The Black and Green Atlantic

Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas

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Keywords

  • 20. Jahrhundert
  • 20th century
  • Africa
  • America
  • Beckett
  • colonization
  • Cultural Studies
  • culture
  • English literature
  • gender
  • history
  • migrant
  • politics
  • Samuel Beckett
  • British and Irish Literature

About this book

For centuries, African and Irish people have traversed the Atlantic, as slaves, servants, migrants, exiles, political organizers and cultural workers. Their experiences intersected; their cultures influenced one another. These essays explore the connections that have defined the 'Black and Green Atlantic' in culture, politics, race and labour.

Reviews

“This is quite a comprehensive collection of essays that combine to raise fascinating questions and, as is its predilection, open up the way for further investigation into the complex story of Irish and Black interactions.” (David Doolin, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 26 (1), December, 2017)

'The essays here complicate the received wisdoms about black/Irish relations in a series of case studies that add greatly to our knowledge of this fractured relationship.' - Alan Rice, Journal of Transatlantic Studies

'The essays provide excellent points for further investigations into the subtle nuances and histories that shape our understanding of people and ideas.' - Roxana Oltean, European Journal of American Studies

'The Black and Green Atlantic exceeds its fine individual contributions in one important respect: by combining a range of competing approaches, the book as a whole puts their key concepts to the test in ways rarely found in a monograph. In doing so, it will provide an invaluable point for future work in the field.' - Journal of American Studies

About the authors

ANNE GULICK is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, USA ANTHONY HALE is currently affiliated with Mills College in Oakland, California, USA MARJORIE HOWES is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Irish Studies programme at Boston College, USA LEE MARGARET JENKINS teaches in the School of English, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland STACY J. LETTMAN is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Southern California, USA MICHAEL MALOUF is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, USA AMY E. MARTIN is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, USA DENIS O'HEARN is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University-SUNY, USA MARK QUIGLEY is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon, USA CEDRIC J. ROBINSON is Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA NINI RODGERS is an honorary Senior Research Fellowin the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast, UK FIONNGHUALA SWEENEY is Lecturer in Comparative American Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK JONATHAN TADASHI NAITO is Visiting Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Black and Green Atlantic

  • Book Subtitle: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas

  • Editors: P. O'Neill, D. Lloyd

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22818-4Published: 06 November 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-58818-3Published: 16 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 283

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