Writing race across the Atlantic world : medieval to modern
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Writing race across the Atlantic world : medieval to modern
(Signs of race / general editors, Philip D. Beidler and Gary Taylor)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
1st ed
- : pbk
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Papers from a symposium held at the University of Alabama in 2001
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- G.Taylor & P.Beidler A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism and Cultural Survival
- B.Fuchs Angells in America
- K.O.Kupperman Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples
- G.Sayre Michelangelo and the Curse of Ham: From a Typology of Jew-Hatred to a Genealogy of Racism
- B.Braude "Extravagant Viciousness": Slavery and Gluttony in the Works of Thomas Tryon
- K.Hall "Working Like a Dog": African Labor and Racking: The Human-Animal Divide in Early Modern England
- F.Royster Fresh Produce
- J.Roach "Men to Monsters": Civility, Barbarism, and "Race" in Early Modern Ireland
- D.J. Baker Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan and Other Famous Early American Mahometans
- P.Beidler
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