Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700) - Hardcover

Vitkus, Daniel J.

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ISBN 10: 0312294522 ISBN 13: 9780312294526

Verlag: AIAA, 2003

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Book by Vitkus Daniel

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'[A] revealing exploration of England's early modern relationship with the Ottoman Empire and with Islam as a whole...Vitkus provides essential reading to those with an interest in the meeting of early modern cultures.' - Early Modern Literary Studies

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Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures inthe early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of thatexperience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that theEnglish encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representationsinspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties about religious conversion, foreign trade and miscegenation were crucial factors in the formation of that identity.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312294522
• ISBN 13: 9780312294526
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260