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Race and rhetoric in the renaissance Barbarian errors /

This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.

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Main Authors: Smith, Ian
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Early modern cultural studies series
Subjects:
Blacks in literature
English literature > History and criticism > Early modern, 1500-1700
Africans in literature
Rhetoric > History > 16th century
Renaissance > England
Race in literature
Rhetoric > History > 16th century > England
Rhetoric > History > 17th century > England
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 > English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230102064
Summary: This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Originally published in: 2010.
Carrier Form: 240 p.
ISBN: 9780230620452
9780230102064 :
0230102069 :
CLC: I561.064
Contents: Introduction: Barbarous African, Barbarous English, and the Transactions of Race * Classical Precedents * Race in Perspective * Barbarian Genealogies * Instructing the English Nation * Shakespeare's Africans: Performing Cultural Whiteness * Epilogue: Imperialism's Legacy, or the "Language of the Criminal".

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