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Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Barbarian Errors

Smith, Ian

Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Barbarian Errors

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700: Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

 

"During the English Renaissance, the figure of the classical barbarian - identified by ineloquent speech that marked him as a cultural outsider - was recovered for stereotyping Africans. This book advances the idea that language, and not only color and religion, functioned as an important racial code.


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Beschrijving Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700: Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.


ISBN
9780230620452
Pagina's
231
Verschenen
Serie
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
NUR
320
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Palgrave Macmillan

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