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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... turn of the sixteenth century , especially a book centered on only four plays : one , The Battle of Alcazar ( 1588-89 ) , so generically quirky that critics have been hard pressed to see the coherence between its " tangled " historical ...
... turns the presence of " blackamoors " within her realm into an urgent national problem and promotes their deportation as a natural and possible so- lution . Within the landscapes of Africa in Richard Hakluyt's globe - trotting Principal ...
... turn- ing or returning to the Moor , and understanding England's short but serious preoccupation with that subject in all its particulars , so pertinent and press- ing now . For the uncodified diversity that is the Moor's story ...
... turn to literary terrains , consider what Celia Daileader has tagged " Othellophilia , " a long - standing Anglo - American obsession with " the Othello myth , " with the disturbing play of the " black male " against the white female he ...
... turns , his skin color only one of his distinguishing and demonized features ? In summing up his story , can we assign him a " black ethnicity " when he and his audiences do not ? 24 And in the aftermath of 9-II , were we to revive 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 |