Research Catalog

Title

Under the sky of my Africa : Alexander Pushkin and blackness / edited by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, and Ludmilla A. Trigos ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer.
• Svobodny, Nicole.
• Trigos, Ludmilla A.

Description

xvi, 417 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Studies in Russian literature and theory
• Studies of the Harriman Institute

Subjects

• Black people in literature
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 > Knowledge > Race awareness
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 > Family
• Pushkin family
• Racially mixed people > Race identity > Russia
• Race awareness in literature
• Russia > Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Was Pushkin black and does it matter? / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Ludmilla A. Trigos -- A.P. Gannibal : on the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin's great-grandfather / N.K. Teletova -- Pushkin on his African heritage : publications during his lifetime / J. Thomas Shaw -- Ruslan and Ludmila : Pushkin's anxiety of blackness / Richard F. Gustafson -- How black was Pushkin? : otherness and self-creation / David M. Bethea -- The telltale black baby, or, Why Pushkin began The blackamoor of Peter the Great but didn't finish it / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- Making a true image : blackness and Pushkin portraits / Richard C. Borden -- Pushkin and Othello / Catherine O'Neil -- The Pushkin of opportunity in the Harlem renaissance / Olga P. Hasty -- "Bound by blood to the race" : Pushkin in African American context / Anne Lounsbery -- Tsvetaeva's "blackest of black" (naicherneishii) Pushkin / Liza Knapp -- "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" : Paul Robeson and the 1949 Pushkin jubilee / Alexandar Mihailovic -- Artur Vincent Lourié's The blackamoor of Peter the Great : Pushkin's exotic ancestor as twentieth-century opera / Caryl Emerson.

Call Number

JFE 06-10368

ISBN

• 0810119714 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810119706 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005016715

OCLC

60705524

Title

Under the sky of my Africa : Alexander Pushkin and blackness / edited by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, and Ludmilla A. Trigos ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Imprint

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2006.

Series

Studies in Russian literature and theory

Studies of the Harriman Institute

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer.

Svobodny, Nicole.

Trigos, Ludmilla A.

Research Call Number

JFE 06-10368