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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... political life ( 26 ) . As another commentator explicating Aristotle has put it , " Tragedy presents the city with its political and ethical flaws in an act of clarification and self definition " ( Siebers 22 ; Liebler Shakespeare's ...
... political life ( 26 ) . As another commentator explicating Aristotle has put it , " Tragedy presents the city with its political and ethical flaws in an act of clarification and self definition " ( Siebers 22 ; Liebler Shakespeare's ...
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... political : the speakers are part of the administrative staff of competing Roman political and military personalities who have met to negotiate a difficult but necessary alliance between themselves . The specific context of Enobarbus's ...
... political : the speakers are part of the administrative staff of competing Roman political and military personalities who have met to negotiate a difficult but necessary alliance between themselves . The specific context of Enobarbus's ...
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... political situations . The story of how they came upon the island is also the story of how he lost his rulership to the brother he had trusted . Closely related to this are the negative explanations given by Sebastian , Antonio and ...
... political situations . The story of how they came upon the island is also the story of how he lost his rulership to the brother he had trusted . Closely related to this are the negative explanations given by Sebastian , Antonio and ...
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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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