Worlds apart : race in the modern period
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Worlds apart : race in the modern period
Bergin & Garvey, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[193]-209) and index
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Description
Long before the physical advent of Blacks in Europe, Professor Dathorne asserts they featured over and over again in literature as marginalized Others, but rarely were real Blacks present. As English developed as a language, race came into the evolution of the signifiers, so that words like darkness, blackness, and so on became heavily charged with negative connotations.
Using travel literature as well as figures on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and material from later writers, Dathorne shows how negative elements surrounding Blackness were transferred to Native Americans, to Indians from India, to South Pacific islanders, and others. A provocative analysis for scholars, students, and researchers involved with Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, and race.
Table of Contents
Introduction The "Trace" of Orality New World/Old Word: Viewed, Visionary, Verbal, & Visual in the Construction of Text "To Wash an Ethiop White": Royalty, Gender and Race Talking Indian: Written Hegemony and Oral Native American Narration (Re)Placing the Wor(l)d: The Search for the "Half Sign" Imagining Africa: Space as Myth and Reality Africa in Europe: Binaries and Polarities Inventing Diaspora: African Cultural Extensions When Nomads Go Home: Inventing a Third Space Interacting at the Margins: When Race is Class is Gender Bibliography Index
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