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Anti-black racism in early modern English drama :

1138677388

9781138677388

9781315559544

Anti-black racism in early modern English drama :

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the other "other" /

Matthieu Chapman.

New York :

Routledge,

2017.

xi, 200 pages ;

24 cm.

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;

34

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.

Introduction: "There were no black people in England ..." -- Staging blackness -- "If they were black, one would not feel it so much" -- Othello is a white man -- Primary encounters with subjects and slaves -- Aaron's incorporation and the destruction of civil society.

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"This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in the Early Modern Period, it engages the arguments for race as a fluid construction of human identity by addressing how race in Early Modern England functioned not only as a marker of human identity, but also as an a priori constituent of human subjectivity. Chapman argues that Blackness is the marker of social death that allows for constructions of human identity to become transmutable based on the impossibility of recognition and incorporation for Blackness into humanity. Using dramatic texts such as Othello, Titus Andronicus, and other Early Modern English plays both popular and lesser known, the book shifts the binary away from the currently accepted standard of white/non-white that defines "otherness" in the period and examines race in Early Modern England from the prospective of a non-black/black antagonism"--Publisher's website.

Anti-black racism in early modern English drama.

9781315559544

Africans in literature.

Blacks in literature.

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

Racism in literature.

Africans in literature.

Blacks in literature.

English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.

Racism in literature.

Chapman, Matthieu,1984-

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