Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern PeriodShakespeare 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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Inhalt
Homosocial Eugenics and Black Desire | 23 |
T S Eliot Othellos | 121 |
Cleopatra and the Sexualization of Race | 157 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period Imtiaz H. Habib Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2000 |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period, Imtiaz H. Habib |
| Autor/in | Imtiaz H. Habib |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | University Press of America, 2000 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 29. Mai 2008 |
| ISBN | 0761815457, 9780761815457 |
| Länge | 298 Seiten |
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