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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... relations are organized increasingly around an expansive and expanding " world " —a moment which , in that regard , parallels the early modern . At just such moments , the danger is that the unaccommodating particulars , the differences ...
... relations , and the tentativeness of its — and finally any " world picture . " It has been to open up both what and how we tead and teach , to call attention to identities and differences that authorizing narratives have effec- tively ...
... relation to Africa until well into the seventeenth century . And although in the sixteenth century Moors were being drawn into a discriminatory discourse on blackness along with the " Negros " from Africa's western ( " slave " ) coast ...
... relations . In turning to religion ( Islam , especially ) , scholars such as Ania Loomba brought into view a new set of cultural sites and subjects , with India , the Ottoman East , and the Mediterranean supplementing Africa and the New ...
... relation to the Moor may be , at best , uncertain and oblique ; it also risks inflecting our new vision of the Moor , and therefore of the Mediterranean , with a new kind of estrangement . We no longer read England reading either the ...
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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 |