Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern PeriodUniversity Press of America, 2000 - 298 pagina's Shakespeare and Race is a provocative new study that reveals a connection between the subject of race in Shakespeare and the advent of early English colonialism. Citing generally neglected archival evidence, Imtiaz Habib argues that a small population of captured Indians and Africans brought to England during the 16th century provided the impetus for Elizabethan constructions of race rather than existing European traditions in which blackness was represented metaphorically. He explores Tudor and Stuart dramatic representations of black characters, focusing specifically on how race affected Shakespeare personally and historically over the course of his career. Using postcolonial paradigms combined with neo-Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytic insights, Habib discusses the possible existence of a black woman that Shakespeare knew and wrote about in his Sonnets and examines the design of his black male characters, including Aaron, Othello, and Caliban. Shakespeare and Race represents a significant contribution that will fascinate scholars of literature as well as those interested in the cultural impact of colonialism. |
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Pagina 225
... Caliban , and it overwrites directly or indirectly all the other political lessons of the play . In its use of the politics of knowledge construction ( when Prospero gave Caliban the European names and explanations of cosmic and natural ...
... Caliban , and it overwrites directly or indirectly all the other political lessons of the play . In its use of the politics of knowledge construction ( when Prospero gave Caliban the European names and explanations of cosmic and natural ...
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... Caliban's quiet admission " I must obey ; his Art is of such power " ( 1.2.373 ) . These are instances of the inscrutability of crouching as a combative attitude that seeks political recovery even within and through its political ...
... Caliban's quiet admission " I must obey ; his Art is of such power " ( 1.2.373 ) . These are instances of the inscrutability of crouching as a combative attitude that seeks political recovery even within and through its political ...
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... Caliban has become the cornerstone of a global anti - colonial , anti - imperial , and anti - patriarchal thought , is a vocal replica of crouching's psychologically split signal of conformity and defiance . Three clear instances of the ...
... Caliban has become the cornerstone of a global anti - colonial , anti - imperial , and anti - patriarchal thought , is a vocal replica of crouching's psychologically split signal of conformity and defiance . Three clear instances of the ...
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Homosocial Eugenics and Black Desire | 23 |
T S Eliot Othellos | 121 |
Cleopatra and the Sexualization of Race | 157 |
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