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  1. The Irish and the imagination of race
    white supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century
    Author: O'Malley, Patrick R.
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

    "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... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "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"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780813950570; 0813950570; 9780813950563; 0813950562
    Other subjects: 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; United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Influence; Littérature anglaise / Auteurs irlandais / Histoire et critique; Littérature anglaise / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche / Influence; Racisme / États-Unis / Influence; Esclavage / États-Unis / Influence; Nationalisme / Irlande / Histoire / 19e siècle; Préjugés dans la littérature; English literature / Irish authors; English literature; White supremacy movements; Racism; United States; Slavery; Irish; History; Nationalism; Ireland; Prejudices in literature; 19th century
    Scope: x, 311 Seiten, 24 cm
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    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
  2. The Irish and the imagination of race
    white supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century
    Author: O'Malley, Patrick R.
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

    "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... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    10 A 178540
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    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
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    NJ 450.270
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    "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"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780813950570; 9780813950563
    Subjects: English literature; English literature; White supremacy movements; Racism; Slavery; Irish; Nationalism; Prejudices in literature
    Scope: x, 311 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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.