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Writing Race Across the Atlantic World: Medieval to Modern

By Philip D. Beidler , Gary Taylor (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2005
ISBN
978-0-312-29597-4, 978-1-4039-8083-0
DOI
10.1057/9781403980830
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
896 kB (917270 bytes)
Series
Signs of Race
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 194\198
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; European Hist

Description

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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