Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Renaissance - Hardcover
This book is a collection of essays addressing the subjects of race and racial difference in English Renaissance culture. Working from historicist, materialist, and feminist perspectives, reading texts as well as cultural practices, the authors present a detailed and sophisticated understanding of early modern views of what race meant.
Beyond the question of how race was useful to English self-fashioning, the essays in this book are also concerned with how the practices of English culture helped endow notions of race with meaning. The authors here have assembled suggestive evidence of how race emerged from economics, technology, dramatic performance and popular culture, as well as how it was presented in more traditional kinds of literary evidence. That evidence is broad; although most of the essays here are centrally concerned with a single Shakespearean play, those plays are textualized within rich webs of racial discourse from the classical as well as the Renaissance world. The essays juxtapose noncanonical drama with these Shakespearean plays and, in one case, devote major attention to a work outside a traditionally conceived canon of Renaissance literature. The effect is to emphasize the breadth and pervasiveness of racial discourse, the rich resourcefulness enabling its production.
Beyond the question of how race was useful to English self-fashioning, the essays in this book are also concerned with how the practices of English culture helped endow notions of race with meaning. The authors here have assembled suggestive evidence of how race emerged from economics, technology, dramatic performance and popular culture, as well as how it was presented in more traditional kinds of literary evidence. That evidence is broad; although most of the essays here are centrally concerned with a single Shakespearean play, those plays are textualized within rich webs of racial discourse from the classical as well as the Renaissance world. The essays juxtapose noncanonical drama with these Shakespearean plays and, in one case, devote major attention to a work outside a traditionally conceived canon of Renaissance literature. The effect is to emphasize the breadth and pervasiveness of racial discourse, the rich resourcefulness enabling its production.
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 083863656X
- ISBN 13 9780838636565
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages187
- EditorMacdonald Joyce Green
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Book Description Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Gut. Second Printing. 187 p. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag weist leichte Gebrauchsspuren auf, sonst sehr sauber und ohne Anstreichungen / Only the dust jacket shows slight signs of usage, otherwise very clean and without markings. - Contents Introduction JOYCE GREEN MACDONALD Bearbaiting, Dominion, and Colonialism REBECCA ANN BACH Merchants and Miscegenation: The Three Ladies of London, The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice DARYL W. PALMER The Rhetoric of Exclusion: Jew, Moor, and the Boundaries of Discourse in The Merchant of Venice ALAN ROSEN Erasing the East from Twelfth Night CONSTANCE C. RELIHAN Claribel's Husband MARJORIE RALEY "Troubling Doubles": Apes, Africans, and Blackface in Mr. Moore's Revels KIM F. HALL Antiquity and Degeneration in Antony and Cleopatra JOHN MICHAEL ARCHER The Construction of Barbarism in Titus Andronicus VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN List of Contributors Index. ISBN 9780838636565 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 377. Seller Inventory # 1238391
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