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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... . It teases us with the illusion of closure and difference — an end to “ this ” and a start to what “ besides ” —where there may be none . Before “ this ” lies INTRODUCTION: On Sitting Down to Read Othello Once Again.
... differences between these Moors , who appear in Venice , Morocco , Belmont , Spain , and Rome , but also the differences— the multilayered dramatic and cultural histories — invoked within the repre- sentation of any given Moor . To be ...
... difference. Because of course we do. We are at a historical moment when globalization is still somewhat embryonic ... differences within differences, that would otherwise define a cultural history, space, or subject will disappear under ...
... difference as the source of contention . But when Shakespeare plays and replays the Othello myth himself , culture trumps color as what gives potentially deadly unions their twist of difference : in Much Ado About Noth- ing ( 1598–99 ) ...
... differences carry the same weight or garner the same in- terest in or across time periods. Nor do they hold the same ... difference as always particularly and peculiarly historical. * * * From the start, studies of the Moor, along with ...
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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 |