Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to OthelloUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 - 252 Seiten Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Speak of me as I am," Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a Moor in the early modern period? In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when England was expanding its reach across the globe, the Moor became a central character on the English stage. In The Battle of Alcazar, Titus Andronicus, Lust's Dominion, and Othello, the figure of the Moor took definition from multiple geographies, histories, religions, and skin colors. Rather than casting these variables as obstacles to our--and England's--understanding of the Moor's racial and cultural identity, Emily C. Bartels argues that they are what make the Moor so interesting and important in the face of growing globalization, both in the early modern period and in our own. In Speaking of the Moor, Bartels sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England's historical record--Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Queen Elizabeth's letters proposing the deportation of England's "blackamoors," and John Pory's translation of The History and Description of Africa. Her book uncovers the surprising complexity of England's negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era. |
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... critics to emphasize the crucial point that before the onset of the Atlantic slave trade , Africa's place in early modern English con- ceptualizations was open ended . She shows with great clarity that narratives of Africa were diverse ...
... critics who have seen and read Othello through and through , who have looked long and hard beyond the play and its perfor- mances to a broad history of dramatic and nondramatic representations of Moors , we'd like to assume that we have ...
... critic from Jones on has had to somehow confront the " notorious indeterminacy " of the term — which , as Michael ... critics have been hard pressed to see the coherence between its " tangled " historical and political " web , " its ...
... critics , actors , and producers as the more savage , the other ( Ara- bian ) the more noble , would the Arabian Moor still come out on top ? 25 These examples remind us how vulnerable " African " subjects , in particu- lar , still are ...
... critics , from Eldred Jones on , has framed that interrogation along lim- ited axes of difference , necessary in their own moments but needing review and revision in ours . Initially , the Moor came into scholarly discussion as an ...
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Enter Barbary The Battle of Alcazar and the World | 21 |
Imperialist Beginnings Hakluyts Navigations and the Place and Displacement of Africa | 45 |
Incorporate in Rome Titus Andronicus and the Consequence of Conquest | 65 |
Too Many Blackamoors Deportation Discrimination and Elizabeth I | 100 |
Banishing all the Moors Lusts Dominion and the Story of Spain | 118 |
Cultural Traffic The History and Description of Africa and the Unmooring of the Moor | 138 |
The stranger of here and everywhere Othello and the Moor of Venice | 155 |
A Brave New World | 191 |
NOTES | 195 |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 251 |