List of Illustrations | vii | ||
Foreword | xi | ||
Acknowledgments | xv | ||
Editors' Note | xvii | ||
Introduction: Was Pushkin Black and Does It Matter? | 3 | (43) | |
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A.P. Cannibal: On the Occasion of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Pushkin's Great-Grandfather | 46 | (33) | |
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Pushkin on His African Heritage: Publications during His Lifetime | 79 | (20) | |
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Ruslan and Ludmila: Pushkin's Anxiety of Blackness | 99 | (23) | |
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How Black Was Pushkin? Otherness and Self-Creation | 122 | (28) | |
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The Telltale Black Baby, or Why Pushkin Began The Blackamoor of Peter the Great but Didn't Finish It | 150 | (22) | |
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Making a True Image: Blackness and Pushkin Portraits | 172 | (24) | |
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Pushkin and Othello | 196 | (30) | |
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The Pushkin of Opportunity in the Harlem Renaissance | 226 | (22) | |
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"Bound by Blood to the Race": Pushkin in African American Context | 248 | (31) | |
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Tsvetaeva's "Blackest of Black" (Naicherneishii) Pushkin | 279 | (23) | |
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"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child": Paul Robeson and the 1949 Pushkin jubilee | 302 | (30) | |
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Artur Vincent Laurié's The Blackamoor of Peter the Great: Pushkin's Exotic Ancestor as Twentieth-Century Opera | 332 | (37) | |
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Appendix A: Creativity and Blackness-a Note on Yury Tynianav's "The Cannibals" | 369 | (8) | |
Appendix B: Introduction to "The Cannibals" by Yury Tynianov | 377 | (7) | |
Appendix C: Excerpt from "My Puslikin" by Marina Tsvetacva | 384 | (9) | |
Appendix D: Excerpt from Strolls with Pushkin by Abram Tertz | 393 | (6) | |
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Index | 399 | (16) | |
Contributors | 415 |
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