Thomas Carlyle and the Politics of Race in John Mitchel’s Jail Journal

Edward Molloy

doi:10.24162/EI2022-10633

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Edward Molloy University College Cork https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4307-7529

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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2022-10633

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Irlanda, raza, siglo XIX, Carlyle, nacionalismo

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Este artículo aborda el compromiso de John Mitchel con las cuestiones relacionadas con la raza, tal y como se articula en su Jail Journal de 1854. Mitchel ha sido señalado y condenado a menudo por su apoyo a la Confederación durante la Guerra Civil estadounidense, en la que perdió a dos de sus hijos. Su racismo, tal y como se articuló en el Southern Citizen durante ese periodo, y su defensa de la esclavitud como institución han dado lugar a numerosas y abiertas desautorizaciones de su legado. Este artículo trata de rastrear el desarrollo de la actitud de Mitchel hacia la raza a través de una lectura atenta de su Jail Journal junto con un tratado racista contemporáneo de Thomas Carlyle. Esta doble lectura expondrá algunas de las ambigüedades y ambivalencias del pensamiento de Mitchel en contraste con la estridente posición pro-esclavista que adoptó más tarde, al tiempo que permitirá descubrir su modus cogitandi que puede ayudar a explicar las aparentes contradicciones dentro de su pensamiento.

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Edward Molloy, University College Cork

Edward Molloy was awarded his PhD from Queen’s University Belfast for his doctoral thesis entitled “Race, History, Nationality: An Intellectual History of the Young Ireland movement 1842-52”.  Previously, he studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he received a distinction in the MA programme in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy. Before that, he studied at the University of Glasgow. He joined the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies as a Busteed Postdoctoral Scholar in the summer of 2018 before being appointed lecturer there the following year. He has also taught at Queen’s University, Belfast and Newham College in East London. Edward has also worked as a researcher for the Electoral Reform Society. He has recently been awarded a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship for his two-year project entitled “Between History and Revolution: Radical Irish Separatism from Tone to Pearse”, which re-evaluates the intellectual underpinning of Irish nationalism in the long nineteenth century. He was recently awarded the IRC “Maurice J Bric Medal of Excellence” for being the top-ranked postdoctoral researcher in the Arts Humanities and Social Science category. His recent work has appeared in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

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