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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... question we should ask , though , is why speak of “ the Moor ” at all ? The term has by now lost its currency as a designation of a racial or eth- nic population . So why write ( or read ) a book in the early twenty - f y - first cen ...
... question. If we look, just in outline, at where and how Moorish characters take their bearings on the English stage in the short period between Alcazar and Othello, the complicating intersections are clear. In Alcazar, a “negro” Moor ...
... question the meaningfulness of “ race ” as a “ category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory , ” to expose the arbi- trariness and instability of its articulation , and to unravel the discourses that were giving ...
... question are nonetheless archvillains . This is part of the stuff that Moors on the early modern stage are inexorably made on . And it stands beside incriminating histories — beside the “ cruel hands ” of Hakluyt's Moors , beside John ...
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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 |