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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960796203321

Titolo

Writing Race Across the Atlantic World : Medieval to Modern / / edited by P. Beidler, G. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611368852

9781281368850

1281368857

9781403980830

1403980837

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Signs of Race, , 2945-6320

Altri autori (Persone)

BeidlerPhilip D

TaylorGary <1953->

Disciplina

305.8/0097

Soggetti

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Europe - History

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

United States - History

America - Literatures

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

European History

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

US History

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a symposium held at the University of Alabama in 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""General Editors� Preface""; ""Introduction: E Pluribus Verum""; ""1 Native Europeans and Native Americans""; ""1 A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism, Hybridity, and Cultural Survival""; ""2 Angells in America""; ""3 Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples""; ""2 Slavery and



Race""; ""4 Michelangelo and the Curse of Ham: From a Typology of Jew-Hatred to a Genealogy of Racism""; ""5 “Extravagant Viciousness�: Slavery and Gluttony in the Works of Thomas Tryon""

""6 “Working Like a Dog�: African Labor and Racing the Human�Animal Divide in Early Modern England""""3 Race and Culture""; ""7 Fresh Produce""; ""8 “Men to Monsters�: Civility, Barbarism, and “Race� in Early Modern Ireland""; ""9 Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan and Other Famous Early American Literary Mahometans""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period, as well as between 'history' and 'literature'. Individual essays address the ways in which categories of 'race' - black brown, red and white, African American and Afro-Caribbean, Spanish and Jewish, English and Celtic, native American and Northern European, creole and mestizo - were constructed or adapted by early modern writers. The collection brings together a top collection of historians and literary critics specializing in early modern Britain and early America.