Race, politics, and Irish America a gothic history
Considers three centuries of writers and creatives of mostly Scots-Irish and post-Famine Irish descent whose work examines moments of entwined racial, social, and political transformation for those of that identity in America.
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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| Zusammenfassung: | Considers three centuries of writers and creatives of mostly Scots-Irish and post-Famine Irish descent whose work examines moments of entwined racial, social, and political transformation for those of that identity in America. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Past Is a Foreign Country -- Immigrant Baggage: Irish America's Diverse Identities -- Racialized Irishness: Redleg, Scots-Irish, and 'Black Irish' -- Gothic: Jackson, Kennedy, and the Costs of Whiteness -- Unassimilated: Queer, Multiracial, and Female Irish America -- Chapter Synopses -- 1. Towards Scots-Irish Gothic -- The Undead President -- Irish History in American Gothic: Edgar Huntly (1799) -- Poe, James, and Scots-Irish Gothic -- Doppelgangers: Irish Patronyms and the Inescapable Past -- Coda: The Convex Mirror -- 2. Closeted Irish: Henry James -- Contagious Irish: James's Daisy Miller and Tóibín's Henry James -- Illegible Irish: Norman Ancestry in James's Family and Fiction -- Stand-in Irish: James's 'Off-White' Italians -- Ulster Irish: The Marriage Plot and the Plot against the Union -- Coda: Ancestor-Haunted: John Mitchel and John Purroy Mitchel -- 3. How the Irish Became Red: O'Neill and Fitzgerald -- Redlegs: O'Neill's Black-Irish Caribbean -- Irish Famine Gothic: Long Day's Journey into Night -- Ulster Plantation Gothic: Desire Under the Elms -- The Curious Case of Great-Grandfather Fitzgerald -- 'Half Black Irish': Tan Lines and Sunburns in Fitzgerald -- Coda: Stage Irish: Fitzgerald in Hollywood -- 4. Complicit Irishness: Plantation Novels by Yerby, Mitchell, and Faulkner -- Overlaps and Divergences: Yerby, Mitchell, and Faulkner -- Neo-Gothic: The Pseudo-Aristocrat's Plantation House -- Forget Haiti? Absalom, Absalom!'s Redleg Planter -- Forget Culloden: Tracing the Compson Curse -- Remember Ireland? Gone with the Wind's Hypocritical Irish Planter -- 'Remember Haiti?' The Foxes of Harrow's Ambivalent Irish Planter -- Coda: Caste and Casting: Maureen O'Hara. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| ISBN: | 9780191953040 9780192675842 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780192859730.001.0001 |