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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... 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 constantly ...
... 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 9–11, were we to revive the morally ...
Inhalt
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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 |