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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... Story of Spain CHAPTER SIX Cultural Traffic : The History and Description of Africa and the Unmooring of the Moor 138 CHAPTER SEVEN 118 100 The " stranger of here and everywhere " : Othello and the Moor of Venice 155 CONCLUSION A Brave ...
... story over , he re- sists settling its terms . " Set you down this " is not the be - all and end - all here , either for him or for the play . Within the dramatic fiction , the prospect of setting down " this , " the Moor's story ...
... story is , in fact , essen- tial to its core , not because , as a signifier , " Moor " is unstable and unreadable but because , as a subject , " the Moor " does not have a single or pure , cultur- ally or racially bounded identity ...
... story culturally and ideologically complex.15 In letters dated from 1596 to 1601 , Queen Elizabeth , now fa- mously , turns the presence of " blackamoors " within her realm into an urgent national problem and promotes their deportation ...
... story , however , if we set down these impressions without saying besides , we will , I think , miss what is equally crucial : within early modern representations , the Moor serves as a site where competing , always provisional axes of ...
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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 |