Race in Irish Literature and Culture

Race in Irish Literature and Cultureprovides an in-depth understanding of intersections between Irish literature culture and questions of race racialization and racism. Covering a vast historical terrain from the sixteenthcentury to the present it spotlights the work of canonical understudied and contemporary authors in Ireland Northern Ireland and among diasporic Irish communities. By focusing on questions related to Black Irish identities Irish whiteness Irish racial sciences postcolonial solidarities and decolonial strategies to address racialization the volume moves beyond the familiar frameworks of British/Irish and Catholic/Protestant binarisms and demonstrates methods for Irish Studies scholars to engage with the question of race from a contemporary perspective.