Publication

2016 - Taylor & Francis Group

Language

English

Word Count

53,000 words, Guess

Page Count

212 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781138677388
  • ISBN-101138677388
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016030422
  • OCLC Control Number965141924
  • OCLC Control Number966377519
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781138677388
  • Open LibraryOL28865195M

Classifications

  • LCCPR658.R34C53 2016
  • LCCPR658.R34 C53 2017

Description

"This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in the Early Modern Period, it engages the arguments for race as a fluid construction of human identity by addressing how race in Early Modern England functioned not only as a marker of human identity, but also as an a priori constituent of human subjectivity. Chapman argues that Blackness is the marker of social death that allows for constructions of human identity to become transmutable based on the impossibility of recognition and incorporation for Blackness into humanity. Using dramatic texts such as Othello, Titus Andronicus, and other Early Modern English plays both popular and lesser known, the book shifts the binary away from the currently accepted standard of white/non-white that defines "otherness" in the period and examines race in Early Modern England from the prospective of a non-black/black antagonism"--Publisher's website.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English DramaTaylor & Francis Group2016

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