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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149374803321

Autore

Chapman Matthieu <1984-, >

Titolo

Anti-black racism in early modern English drama : the other "other" / / Matthieu Chapman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-19551-5

1-315-55954-4

1-317-19552-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture ; ; 34

Disciplina

822/.309896

Soggetti

Racism in literature

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

Africans in literature

Black people in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Staging blackness : the incapacity for interlocution -- 2. "If they were black, one would not feel it so much" : racial discourse separating Moors from blacks in early modern England -- 3. Othello is a white man : the subjectivity of the other in Othello -- 4. Primary encounters with subjects and slaves : comparing the descriptions of North Americans and Africans in the narratives of John Hawkins and William Davenant's The cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru -- 5. Aaron's incorporation and the destruction of civil society.