Fionnghuala Sweeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fionnghuala Sweeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fionnghuala |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweeney |
| SIGNATURE | SWEENEY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Frederick Douglass and the End of Black Atlantic Internationalism: The Arms Industry, the Founding of a University, and the Eclipse of Newcastle’s Progressive Tradition
I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism
Scholars have long known the Narrative of North Carolina writer and activist Moses Roper, first published in London in 1837. This article uses newly discovered sources and the multiple editions of the Narrative to reconstitute the biography of this first fugitive slave abolitionist to lecture in Ireland and Britain. It explores Roper’s interactions with British abolitionists, especially prominent Baptist ministers Francis A. Cox and Thomas Price.…
Pretending to catch a mouse: Photographing Paul Robeson, the aesthetics of risk and the modernist game
This article situates Paul Robeson’s performance as a photographic subject in the 1920s and 1930s within a tradition of revolutionary image-making by African Americans that has refuted and resisted regressive, primitivizing or otherwise exploitative representations of black subjects. Using Edward Steichen’s images of Robeson as Emperor Jones, it identifies an aesthetic of risk at work in Robeson’s multiple and multi-layered performances as an act…
Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire
Common ground: Positioning Ireland within studies of slavery, anti-slavery and empire
This article positions Ireland as a significant literary and political space for fugitive slaves, and for black anti-slavery activism more generally. William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Henry Highland Garnet and Amanda Smith were amongst those who visited and wrote about Ireland in the antebellum and postbellum periods. Their writing portrays Ireland and their Irish experience quite differently, but in ways that help po…
Beautiful, radiant things’: Aesthetics, experience and feminist practice A response to Kathy Davis
Interview with writer Tim Jeal: Travel writing, Victorian explorers and modern narratives about slavery
Additional informationNotes on contributorsFionnghuala SweeneyFionnghuala Sweeney is affiliated to the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]
Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde
Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde
Afromodernisms Paris Harlem Haiti And The Avantgarde
Memory, Mobility, Modernity: Archibald Motley's Portraits and the Art of ‘Serious Painting’
This article considers Archibald Motley Jr.'s academic portraiture as an address to the conjoined difficulties of the African-American as a subject of representation and the African-American body as an artefact of slavery. It argues that his work, by marshalling the conventions of this conservative, patriarchal form, stages scripted performances of critical citizenship that situate the work of art as a cosmopolitan site of diasporic memory, trans…
Visual Culture and Fictive Technique in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave
The Heroic Slave (1853) was perhaps the most significant of Douglass's responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist blockbuster, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Working against the sentimental abstractions inflecting white narrative and visual aesthetics in the period, Douglass's fictive technique invokes the visual realism of the daguerreotype. Written at a moment at which the very existence of African American freedom seemed to be under threat, …
Liberating Sojourns? African Americans and Transatlantic Abolition 1845–1865
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel JULIA SUN-JOO LEE New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Pp. 192, $65.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 1953 9032 2 The overlooked influence of the American
The Haitian play: C. L. R. James' Toussaint Louverture (1936)
The play Toussaint Louverture , staged in London in 1936, was the first in a series of interventions by C. L. R. James into the representative politics and historical implications of the Haitian revolution. The theme was most famously to recur in The Black Jacobins (first published in 1938), a text whose shifting frames of reference and lines of emplotment have become central to contemporary discussions of the current postcolonial moment (Scott 2…
Introduction: Afromodernisms: Modernity, Paris and the Atlantic world
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil – By Mark A Graber
Researching Online
Other Peoples' History: Slavery, Refuge and Irish Citizenship in Dónal O Kelly's The Cambria
The 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade has gone officially unmarked in the Republic of Ireland. Although remaining outside the historical narratives of all political traditions in the state, however, both slavery and anti-slavery had significant impact on the economics of this corner of what was the British Empire. Recently, following four centuries of population haemorrhage, the state has sought to limit the citizenship rights…
Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World
This book takes as its subject the effect of extraterritorial sites - Ireland, Haiti, Egypt - on Frederick Douglass’ writing, self-construction, national, class and racial identity, and status as representative US American man. The most prolific African American writer of the nineteenth century embarked, after his escape from slavery in 1838, on a public career that would span the century and three continents. The narrative of his life in slavery…
The black Atlantic, American studies and the politics of the postcolonial
Twelve years of scholarship in the field of black-Atlantic-meets-American studies has resulted in a substantial body of knowledge around the extraterritorial excursions of US subjects and their cultural output. Despite the opportunities that the black Atlantic offered, it has begun to seem that the repositioning of academic perspective it stems from has itself become part of the discursive problems surrounding US American studies. This article su…
Domestic Institutions: Transatlantic Gender Politics and Economic Power in Frederick Douglass' Variant Narratives
Common ground: Positioning Ireland within studies of slavery, anti-slavery and empire
This article positions Ireland as a significant literary and political space for fugitive slaves, and for black anti-slavery activism more generally. William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Henry Highland Garnet and Amanda Smith were amongst those who visited and wrote about Ireland in the antebellum and postbellum periods. Their writing portrays Ireland and their Irish experience quite differently, but in ways that help po…
Visual Culture and Fictive Technique in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave
The Heroic Slave (1853) was perhaps the most significant of Douglass's responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist blockbuster, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Working against the sentimental abstractions inflecting white narrative and visual aesthetics in the period, Douglass's fictive technique invokes the visual realism of the daguerreotype. Written at a moment at which the very existence of African American freedom seemed to be under threat, …
The black Atlantic, American studies and the politics of the postcolonial
Twelve years of scholarship in the field of black-Atlantic-meets-American studies has resulted in a substantial body of knowledge around the extraterritorial excursions of US subjects and their cultural output. Despite the opportunities that the black Atlantic offered, it has begun to seem that the repositioning of academic perspective it stems from has itself become part of the discursive problems surrounding US American studies. This article su…
Domestic Institutions: Transatlantic Gender Politics and Economic Power in Frederick Douglass' Variant Narratives
Domestic Institutions: Transatlantic Gender Politics and Economic Power in Frederick Douglass' Variant Narratives
The black Atlantic, American studies and the politics of the postcolonial
Twelve years of scholarship in the field of black-Atlantic-meets-American studies has resulted in a substantial body of knowledge around the extraterritorial excursions of US subjects and their cultural output. Despite the opportunities that the black Atlantic offered, it has begun to seem that the repositioning of academic perspective it stems from has itself become part of the discursive problems surrounding US American studies. This article su…
Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World
This book takes as its subject the effect of extraterritorial sites - Ireland, Haiti, Egypt - on Frederick Douglass’ writing, self-construction, national, class and racial identity, and status as representative US American man. The most prolific African American writer of the nineteenth century embarked, after his escape from slavery in 1838, on a public career that would span the century and three continents. The narrative of his life in slavery…
Researching Online
Other Peoples' History: Slavery, Refuge and Irish Citizenship in Dónal O Kelly's The Cambria
The 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade has gone officially unmarked in the Republic of Ireland. Although remaining outside the historical narratives of all political traditions in the state, however, both slavery and anti-slavery had significant impact on the economics of this corner of what was the British Empire. Recently, following four centuries of population haemorrhage, the state has sought to limit the citizenship rights…
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil – By Mark A Graber
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel JULIA SUN-JOO LEE New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Pp. 192, $65.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 1953 9032 2 The overlooked influence of the American
The Haitian play: C. L. R. James' Toussaint Louverture (1936)
The play Toussaint Louverture , staged in London in 1936, was the first in a series of interventions by C. L. R. James into the representative politics and historical implications of the Haitian revolution. The theme was most famously to recur in The Black Jacobins (first published in 1938), a text whose shifting frames of reference and lines of emplotment have become central to contemporary discussions of the current postcolonial moment (Scott 2…
Introduction: Afromodernisms: Modernity, Paris and the Atlantic world
Visual Culture and Fictive Technique in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave
The Heroic Slave (1853) was perhaps the most significant of Douglass's responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist blockbuster, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Working against the sentimental abstractions inflecting white narrative and visual aesthetics in the period, Douglass's fictive technique invokes the visual realism of the daguerreotype. Written at a moment at which the very existence of African American freedom seemed to be under threat, …
Liberating Sojourns? African Americans and Transatlantic Abolition 1845–1865
Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde
Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde
Afromodernisms Paris Harlem Haiti And The Avantgarde
Memory, Mobility, Modernity: Archibald Motley's Portraits and the Art of ‘Serious Painting’
This article considers Archibald Motley Jr.'s academic portraiture as an address to the conjoined difficulties of the African-American as a subject of representation and the African-American body as an artefact of slavery. It argues that his work, by marshalling the conventions of this conservative, patriarchal form, stages scripted performances of critical citizenship that situate the work of art as a cosmopolitan site of diasporic memory, trans…
Interview with writer Tim Jeal: Travel writing, Victorian explorers and modern narratives about slavery
Additional informationNotes on contributorsFionnghuala SweeneyFionnghuala Sweeney is affiliated to the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]
Beautiful, radiant things’: Aesthetics, experience and feminist practice A response to Kathy Davis
Common ground: Positioning Ireland within studies of slavery, anti-slavery and empire
This article positions Ireland as a significant literary and political space for fugitive slaves, and for black anti-slavery activism more generally. William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Henry Highland Garnet and Amanda Smith were amongst those who visited and wrote about Ireland in the antebellum and postbellum periods. Their writing portrays Ireland and their Irish experience quite differently, but in ways that help po…
Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire
Pretending to catch a mouse: Photographing Paul Robeson, the aesthetics of risk and the modernist game
This article situates Paul Robeson’s performance as a photographic subject in the 1920s and 1930s within a tradition of revolutionary image-making by African Americans that has refuted and resisted regressive, primitivizing or otherwise exploitative representations of black subjects. Using Edward Steichen’s images of Robeson as Emperor Jones, it identifies an aesthetic of risk at work in Robeson’s multiple and multi-layered performances as an act…
I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism
Scholars have long known the Narrative of North Carolina writer and activist Moses Roper, first published in London in 1837. This article uses newly discovered sources and the multiple editions of the Narrative to reconstitute the biography of this first fugitive slave abolitionist to lecture in Ireland and Britain. It explores Roper’s interactions with British abolitionists, especially prominent Baptist ministers Francis A. Cox and Thomas Price.…
Frederick Douglass and the End of Black Atlantic Internationalism: The Arms Industry, the Founding of a University, and the Eclipse of Newcastle’s Progressive Tradition
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