Speaking of the Moor: From "Alcazar" to "Othello"University of Pennsylvania Press, 03.08.2010 - 264 Seiten Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title |
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... promoting “ Africans ” as an important subject on the English Renaissance stage and “ the idea of Africa ” as an important part of England's global consciousness , we have not been able to say fully or finally what “ the INTRODUCTION 3.
... England's staging of the Moor at the 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 ...
... 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 constantly de- mands negotiation and so draws attention ...
... England's material and imaginative interests, the centrality of its cross-cultural relations, and the tentativeness of its—and finally any—“world picture.” It has been to open up both what and how we read and teach, to call attention to ...
... England's interactions in Barbary and West Africa . Though still in 1978 G. K. Hunter was basing his assessments of “ colour prejudice ” on the assumption that England had little firsthand knowledge of Moors , Jones's work went a long ...
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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 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 227 |
INDEX | 243 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 251 |