Title The Irish and the imagination of race : White supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century / Patrick R. O'Malley

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (x, 311 pages) 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 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 15, 2023) Subject 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. English literature English literature -- Irish authors Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Irish Nationalism Prejudices in literature SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140242 Subject Ireland United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2023034121 ISBN 9780813950556 0813950554

Other Titles White supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century White supremacy across the Atlantic in the 19th century

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