Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period - Softcover

Habib, Imtiaz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761815465 ISBN 13: 9780761815464

Verlag: University Press of America, 1999

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Críticas:

Thanks to some sustained thinking along several lines, Habib has arrived at solid and illuminating readings of the Shakespearean texts. -- Rachana Sachdev * Shakespeare and Race * The study of race, ethnicity, and identity in the early modern period is one of the most exciting areas of scholarship in the field today. Habib's volume engages meaningfully in this debate while simultaneously providing interested scholars with a welcome survey of previous work. * Sixteenth Century Journal * The study of race, ethnicity, and identity in the early modern period is one of the most exciting areas of scholarship in the field today. Habib's volume engages meaningfully in this debate while simultaneously providing interested scholars with a welcome survey of previous work. * Sixteenth Century Journal * Thanks to some sustained thinking along several lines, Habib has arrived at solid and illuminating readings of the Shakespearean texts. -- Rachana Sachdev * Shakespeare and Race *

Reseña del editor:

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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• Verlag: University Press of America
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0761815465
• ISBN 13: 9780761815464
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320