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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... existence of blacks in Britain from as far back as Roman times , contemporary scholarship has increasingly made evident that they were a feature of the social imaginary in Tudor England . More than two decades ago scholars such as ...
... existence of blacks in Britain from as far back as Roman times , contemporary scholarship has increasingly made evident that they were a feature of the social imaginary in Tudor England . More than two decades ago scholars such as ...
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... existence of green men , does not negate the assumption made here because there is also the added evidence of taverns named after Turks and Muslims such as " The Saracen's Head " and such , and of the common practice of using Turk heads ...
... existence of green men , does not negate the assumption made here because there is also the added evidence of taverns named after Turks and Muslims such as " The Saracen's Head " and such , and of the common practice of using Turk heads ...
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... existence as general household help , was predicated on his utter inability to write himself . Queen Elizabeth's attempts to deport blacks from England at the turn of the century were premised partly on the fact that the employment ...
... existence as general household help , was predicated on his utter inability to write himself . Queen Elizabeth's attempts to deport blacks from England at the turn of the century were premised partly on the fact that the employment ...
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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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