Writing Race Across the Atlantic World: Medieval to Modern (Signs of Race) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312295979 ISBN 13: 9780312295974

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Synopsis

This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period, as well as between 'history' and 'literature'. Individual essays address the ways in which categories of 'race' - black brown, red and white, African American and Afro-Caribbean, Spanish and Jewish, English and Celtic, native American and Northern European, creole and mestizo - were constructed or adapted by early modern writers. The collection brings together a top collection of historians and literary critics specializing in early modern Britain and early America.

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About the Author

PHILIP BEIDLER is Professor of English at the University of Alabama and has written books on early American Culture and the literature of the Vietnam War.

GARY TAYLOR is professor of English and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. He's widely published and is one of the leading figures of the cutting edge early modern cultural studies.

From the Back Cover

"I found all the essays in this very diverse collection to be at once historical, anecdotal, and a real pleasure to read. I found these essays to be pioneering in their efforts to demonstrate that we must have studies that do more than compare the constructions of race across time and geography. These essays show that we must be attentive to the ways the very exchanges and amiable and inimical encounters across the Atlantic were and remain fundamental to our contemporary devisings of race in Anglicized and Americanized cultures. Anyone interested in how the local can and does transmogrify into more troubling universalist truths will find this diverse collection an excellent piece of argumentative evidence."--Arthur L. Little, Jr., Associate Professor of English, UCLA, author of "Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice"

From the Inside Flap

"I found all the essays in this very diverse collection to be at once historical, anecdotal, and a real pleasure to read. I found these essays to be pioneering in their efforts to demonstrate that we must have studies that do more than compare the constructions of race across time and geography. These essays show that we must be attentive to the ways the very exchanges and amiable and inimical encounters across the Atlantic were and remain fundamental to our contemporary devisings of race in Anglicized and Americanized cultures. Anyone interested in how the local can and does transmogrify into more troubling universalist truths will find this diverse collection an excellent piece of argumentative evidence."--Arthur L. Little, Jr., Associate Professor of English, UCLA, author of Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312295979
• ISBN 13: 9780312295974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 203
• Editor: Beidler P., Taylor G.